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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born into a life of privilege at Hyde Park, NY, on January 30, 1882. He found himself drawn to politics and public service early in life. Roosevelt undertook this work with great energy and optimism. His earliest and greatest challenge was a polio attack at the age of thirty-nine. Roosevelt spent much of the next decade working to overcome the effects of the attack. He worked to reconcile himself to the meaning of partial paralysis in his life and career. Eleanor Rooselvelt and FDR's advisor Louie Howe became the strongest supporters of his return to politics and to the exercise of his huge energy and great personal gifts.
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Franklin D Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at the Livadia Palace in Yalta, 1945. Note that FDR is wearing a cape very similar to the one pictured above in the museum collection.
FDR Library 09-1905
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Springwood in Hyde Park, NY.
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Franklin D Roosevelt, Fala and Ruthie Bie at Top Cottage, in Hyde Park, NY.
FDR Library 300
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1882
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FDR born Hyde Park |
1900
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Entered Harvard; father James dies |
| 1905 |
Married 5th cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Teddy Roosevelt
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| 1907 |
Admitted to the New York bar
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| 1910 |
Elected to the New York State Senate
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| 1913 |
Appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Wilson
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| 1920 |
Defeated in bid for Vice-Presidency
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1921
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Stricken with polio |
| 1927 |
Founded Warm Springs Foundation in Georgia, a center for polio therapy
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1928
1930
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Elected Governor of New York |
1933
1936
1940
1944
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Inaugurated U.S. President |
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Died in Warm Springs, Georgia |
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