Franklin D. Roosevelt

Born in 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, Franklin Roosevelt, following in his fifth cousin Theodore Roosevelt, he entered into public service. However, he entered into it as a Democrat.

He won the election into the New York Senate in 1910. Then President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

In the summer of 1921, he was hit with poliomyelitis. Demonstrating amazing courage, he fought to regain control of his legs. In 1928, he became governor of New York.

Then in 1932, he was elected to the presidency in the height of the Great Depression. This would be the first of four terms in office. By March of 1933 there were more than 13,000,000 people unemployed in the U. S..  Roosevelt, thinking quickly, proposed, and Congress passed, a sweeping program to bring help to those in need of it.

1935 found him being turned upon by bankers and businessmen, seeing as they did not like that he’d taken the country off of Gold and allowed deficits in the budget.

On December 7th, 1941, Roosevelt directed the nation’s resources to fighting a global war after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

As the war drew to a close, on April 12, 1945, Roosevelt’s health deteriorated greatly, and he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.