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Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to serve with a significant physical disability. Many believe that the personal struggle with pain and paralysis from polio helped shape FDR, both as a man and as a president.
Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation through the Great Depression. His signature domestic legislation, the New Deal, expanded the role of the federal government in the nation’s economy in an effort to address the challenges of the Great Depression. He was elected to the presidency four times, serving from March 1933 until his ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States four times: 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. Prior to the third-term election of 1940, it was a presidential tradition set by George Washington that presidents only held the office for two terms. As a result of FDR's unprecedented four terms, the Twenty-second Amendment to the United ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882–1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Thirty-Second President, 1933–1945. Campaign. In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing their place in the White House. The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s ...
6 days ago · U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt (centre) signing into law the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, with Sen. Clarence Drill (left) and Rep. Sam Rayburn (right) looking on, June 16, 1933. Roosevelt followed up on his promise of prompt action with “The Hundred Days”—the first phase of the New Deal, in which his administration presented ...
Jul 3, 2019 · Updated on July 03, 2019. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945) led the United States during the Great Depression and World War II. Paralyzed from the waist down after suffering a bout of polio, Roosevelt overcame his disability and was elected president of the United States an unprecedented four times.
Franklin D. Roosevelt summary: The only president who has ever held four terms in office, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, into a world of privilege. He had an elderly father who died when he was in his first year at Harvard. He was his mother’s only child.
