FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT 1882 1945 THIRTY SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D 1882 1945 U.S GOV'T EXECUTIVE NEW DEAL WORLD WAR II U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION ELECTIONS AND POLITICS FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT BORN IN HYDE PARK NEW YORK TO A WEALTHY FAMILY FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WAS A DISTANT COUSIN OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT SOON AFTER GRADUATING FROM HARVARD IN 1904 HE MARRIED ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ANOTHER DISTANT COUSIN FRANKLIN PRACTICED LAW IN NEW YORK FROM 1907 TO 1910 HE THEN SERVED IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE UNTIL 1913 ROOSEVELT BECAME THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY IN 1913 A POSITION HE HELD UNTIL 1920 IN 1921 HE BECAME ILL WITH POLIO A DISEASE THAT LEFT HIM WITH SOME PARALYSIS FROM 1929 TO 1933 ROOSEVELT SERVED AS GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK IN 1932 HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT AS A DEMOCRAT DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION HE INITIATED A SERIES OF PROGRAMS KNOWN AS THE NEW DEAL IN AN EFFORT TO ACHIEVE NATIONAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY ROOSEVELT WAS RE ELECTED IN 1936 AND 1940 IN FOREIGN POLICY ROOSEVELT KEPT THE UNITED STATES NEUTRAL UNTIL EARLY IN WORLD WAR II WHEN HE BEGAN TO AID THE ALLIED POWERS IN EUROPE WITH WINSTON CHURCHILL HE ISSUED THE 1941 ATLANTIC CHARTER WHICH EXPRESSED THE POSTWAR GOALS OF THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN AFTER JAPAN BOMBED PEARL HARBOR IN HAWAII THE UNITED STATES DECLARED WAR ON JAPAN GERMANY AND ITALY DURING THE WAR ROOSEVELT TRIED TO ESTABLISH GOOD WORKING RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION IN 1944 HE WAS ELECTED TO A FOURTH TERM AS PRESIDENT BUT DIED THE FOLLOWING YEAR
