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FDR was born in Hyde Park, New York
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This is a timeline all about FDR's life and major events in his presidency.
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FDR graduates with a Bachelor's Degree from Harvard.
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FDR marries Eleanor Roosevelt.
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FDR won a seat in the US Senate for the state of New York. He took his seat on New Year's Day of 1911
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FDR is sworn in as the Assistant Secretary in the Navy under Woodrow Wilson's administration.
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FDR runs as the democratic Vice Presidental Nominee. He is defeated by the Republicans in the election.
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FDR contracts Polio. He is extrmely sick and becomes wheelchair bound. He never wlaked unaided again.
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FDR is elected President for the first of 4 terms.
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FDR signs New Deal to help the struggling US economy after The Great Depression.
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After the attacks on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese FDR declared in a speech that the US would be at war with Japan during WWII
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FDR dies of a brain hemorrhage while in office, leaving his Vice President Harry S Truman to take over office.
