Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was of Dutch, English ancestry and was born on January 30, 1882. Franklin grew up in a very wealthy family in Hyde Park, New York to James Roosevelt and his second wife, Sara Delano Roosevelt. He had a sheltered youth, and was taught mainly by governesses. His life mainly revolved around the family estate in rural Dutchess County. He also took many trips to Europe and participated in a lot of athletics (mainly swimming and boating) and hobbies such as stamp and bird collecting. Although he valued fun, he rarely ever shared his inner most thoughts with anyone. Some believe that this might have been a way to avoid his mother's attempts at domination. Franklin went to the exclusive Groton School. He was filled with a sense of social responsibility. He was an average student at Harvard University and edited the Harvard Crimson in his senior year. After graduation (1903) he attended the Columbia Law School. But, he dropped out of law school when he was admitted to the New York bar and worked from 1907-1910 for a Wall Street law firm. A tall, handsome, and outgoing Franklin married a shy; distant cousin named Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905. Her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt gav
Franklin wanted to "inflate" the currency to try to get more public construction projects going. Franklin's policy was that "no American should go hungry" He also lowered the price of electric power. The Roosevelt name and his progressive image won him the party's Vice-President nomination in 1920 on the ticket with the conservative newspaper publisher Gov. M. Cox of Ohio. The Democrats didn't have much hope of winning. Americans were tired of World War I and Europe's problems and voted for Warren G. Harding's promise of a "return to normalcy." Roosevelt's campaign was seen as a "sacrificial gesture" and was pointed out by a strong defense of Wilson's support of the US membership in the League of Nations. It has been said the Roosevelt presidency was one of the most eventful. Franklin proved to be a great leader when he faced the near collapse of the country and the most destructive wars in history. When he helped Britain in WWII, he insured that they would become allies of the U.S.
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