FDR had a very easy early life. He was born on January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York. He was born into a well to do, family of three. James, his father, was a well-to-do investor and the vice president of a small railroad company. His mother, Sarah came from a rich New England family. (Hickok 1-7)

A governess taught Franklin until he was fourteen, then he entered Groton School in Massachusetts. When he graduated from Groton he then went to Harvard to study law where he was chief editor of the school newspaper. He finished Harvard in 1904 and then he went to Columbia Law School. He studied there until he passed his bar exam and then he quit. In this time he met a woman who was his distant cousin. Her name was Eleanor and they fell in love. The got married in 1905. (Rawcliffe 11-13)

Franklin got involved in politics when he was 28 in 1910. Even though hope

FDR is considered the greatest president the U.S.A. ever had. His legislation changed our whole country. Without the New Deal programs our country could still be in poverty today. He also guided us through a world war, which saved Europe from German defeat. He is also the only president to be elected more than twice, he was elected four times. In all, Roosevelt was a great man whose great ideas saved a country from collapse.

FDR swept the election in 1940 over Wendle Willkie and passed the Lend-Lease Act in 1941, which enabled the U.S. to supply Britain with more weapons. On December 7, 1941 the U.S. was drawn into war when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The next day we declared war on Japan. During the war Roosevelt helped plan major offensives and converted the U.S. into wartime production. (Rawcliffe 56-68)

Although these acts helped, employment was still high. In 1935 Roosevelt passed the WPA or the Works Progress Administration a large scale work program, the Revenue Act which taxed the rich even more and the Public Utility Holding Company act, which restricted gas and electric utilities but the most important of all these was the Social Security Act which does many things. (Rawcliffe 46-47)

s were dim Democratic leaders persuade him to run. Luckily the Republican vote was split that year and Roosevelt won a State senate seat. Roosevelt supported Wilson for the Presidential nomination in 1912 so when Wilson won in 1913 he appointed FDR Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Many thought that Roosevelt was a bad choice because he see

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