President Timeline

  • Birth

    Birth
    Hyde Park, New York
  • Started at Groton

    Started at Groton
    (a private school)
  • Father died

    Father died
  • Started at Columbia Law School

    Started at Columbia Law School
    Lawyer
  • Married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

    Married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
    His distant Cousin
  • Anna's Birth

    Anna's Birth
    New York, NY
  • Finished Law School

    Finished Law School
    Never actually graduated
  • James Roosevelt Birth

    James Roosevelt Birth
    New York, NY
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Birth

    Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Birth
  • Elliot Roosevelt's Birth

    Elliot Roosevelt's Birth
    New York, NY
  • Member, Plattsburg, New York, Centennial.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Birth

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Birth
    Campobello Island, Canada
  • John Aspinwall Roosevelt Birth

    John Aspinwall Roosevelt Birth
    Hyde Park, NY
  • Elected Overseer of Harvard University

  • Resigns as Assistant Secretary of the Navy

    Resigns as Assistant Secretary of the Navy
  • Founded Warm Springs Foundation

    Founded Warm Springs Foundation
    For people with Polio
  • New York State Democrats nominate FDR for governor

    New York State Democrats nominate FDR for governor
  • Reelected governor of New York, defeating Republican opponent Charles H. Tuttle.

  • Unhurt in assassination attempt by Guiseppe Zangara in Miami, Florida.

  • Term of office

    Term of office
    Political Party: Democratic
  • Signs the Agricultural "Adjustment Act.”

    Signs the Agricultural "Adjustment Act.”
  • Issues executive order establishing the Civil Works Administration,

    Issues executive order establishing the Civil Works Administration,
    an emergency relief pro­gram to employ four million jobless on federal, state and local make-work projects.
  • Signs National Housing Act

    Signs National Housing Act
    establishes Federal Housing Administration.
  • Signs the Social Security Act.

    Signs the Social Security Act.
  • Franklin Beats Alfred Landon

    Franklin Beats Alfred Landon
    winning re-election to second term
  • Re-elction for third term

    Re-elction for third term
  • Mother Death

    Mother Death
    Hyde Park, NY
  • End Of Term

    End Of Term
    Term Ended due to death
  • Death

    Death
    Died due to Poliomyelitis. buried in Hyde Park, New York. Died in Warm Springs Georgia
  • Wife Died

    Wife Died
    No Info