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life span
Born: January 30, 1882, Hyde Park, NY -
siblings
James Roosevelt Roosevelt
Brother. -
schools
Groton School and Harvard College. -
when and who married
On St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt. -
Children
Anna,James,Elliott,Fraklin d jr,and John Aspinwall Roosevelt. -
To the Senate
Franklin Roosevelt is elected to the New York State Senate. -
Governor
Franklin Roosevelt is elected governor of New York. -
great depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
presidency span
On January 20, 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only president to be elected to three terms in office, is inaugurated to his fourth term -
FDR AND WORLD WAR II
After World War II broke out in September 1939, however, Roosevelt called a special session of Congress in order to revise the country’s existing neutrality acts and allow Britain and France to purchase American arms on a “cash-and-carry” basis. -
Pearl Harbor
President Franklin Roosevelt is conferring with advisor Harry Hopkins in his study when Navy Secretary Frank Knox bursts in and announces that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack killed more than 2,400 naval and military personnel. -
Presidency
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to be elected four times. -
death
Died: April 12, 1945
