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Franklin D. Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York.
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Roosevelt had his first child and her name was Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth and died February 20, 1980.
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Roosevelt started going to school in 1896.
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In his last year of going to Havard, he became engaged to his fifth cousin Eleanor Roosevelt. They got married March 17, 1905.
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Roosevelt was struck with polio in 1921.
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Roosevelt became governor of New York from January 1 1928 to January 1 1929 and was selected president in 1932.
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Roosevelt became president on March 4, 1933. He was the only president to be elected four times. He led America through the Great Depression and World War II.
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When England was under attack and France fell he sent every possible resource to help Great Britain out.
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When the Japanese attaked Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt directed all manpower and resources for global war.
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He died in Georgie April 12, 1945 from cerebral hemorrhage.