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His parents were James and Sara Delano Roosevelt, and they lived in Hyde Park, New York.
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He received a bachelors degree in history.
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She was his fifth cousin, once removed.
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He represented the counties of Dutchess, Columbia, and Putnam.
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President Woodrow Wilson swore him in.
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He was running with James Cox. They lost the election.
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He introduced his "New Deal" at this time.
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His vice president was John Garner. FDR defeated Herbert Hoover in this race.
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He became the 32nd US president. During his first hundred days, he instigated his New Deal.
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At this inaguration, it is remembered that FDR talked about the one-third of the population that were still “ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished,"
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This is a campaign he originally started to fight polio.
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This set a minimum wage and a maximum number of hours a person could work.
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He was on TV during the opening of the New York World's Fair.
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His vice president was Henry Wallace. FDR beat Wendell Willkie in the presidential race.
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FDR went to Casablanca, Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill. This was when the “unconditional surrender” doctrine was announced.
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His Vice President was Harry Truman. FDR beat Thomas E. Dewey in the presidential race.
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He dies in Warm Springs, Georgia, and is buried in Hyde Park, New York a few days later.
