Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• FDR was born at Hyde Park, New York on January
  30, 1882
• Parents were James Roosevelt Sr. and Sara Delano

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Roosevelt Family

• Married Theodore Roosevelts niece Anna Elanor
  Roosevelt on March 17, 1905
• Had children of which five survived infancy
• Children include Anna (1906), James (1907),
  Elliot (1910), Franklin Jr. (1914), and John
  (1916)

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Before Presidency

• Attended Groton, prepatory school in
  Massachusetts from 1896-1900
• Received a BA in history from Harvard in 1903
• Studied law at New Yorks Columbia University
• Passed the Bar Exam in 1907
• Practiced law with a prominent New York Wall
  Street Law Firm from 1907 to 1910
• Was elected into the New York Senate as a
  democrat in 1910 where he served two terms
• In 1913 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of
  the Navy by Woodrow Wilson
• From 1913 to 1917 he founded the United States
  Navy Reserve
• In 1929 was elected governor of New York and
  served two terms

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FDRs First Term

• Elected to first term in 1932
• During first term ¼ of the work force was
  unemployed, Farmers in trouble because of a 60
  decrease in prices, Industrial production fell
  by half, 2 million people were homeless, banking
  system fell completely.
• Roosevelt began a program named relief,
  recovery, and reform.
• Roosevelt's First 100 Days were concintrating
  on the releif. The Federal Emergency Releif
  Administration for the unemployed was installed.
  The Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC was used
  to give 250000 unemployed men jobs on local rural
  projects.

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FDRs Second Term
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FDRs Third Term
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FDRs Fourth Term
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During His Presidency

• Great Depression
• Pearl Harbor
• World War II
• The Holocaust
• First Atomic Bomb used

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FDRs Death

• In the summer of 1921 he was stricken with
  poliomyelitis.
• Had high blood pressure along with heart disease
• Died on April 12, 1945 of a cerebral hemorrhage
  at Warm Springs, Georgia

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FDR Memorial