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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, thirty- second president of the United States, was born on his family’s estate in Duchess County, New York in 1882. In 1891, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s father suffered a heart attack that left him a semi-invalid. In 1900 Franklin’s father died, while Franklin was still in college. Right after his father’s death he become governor of New York. On St. Patrick’s Day, 1905 Franklin married Eleanor Roosevelt. |
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the summer of 1921, when Franklin was 39 years old, he was struck with polio,
which paralyzed him for the rest of his life. Franklin fought to regain the
use of his legs, particularly through swimming. No one could tell that there
was anything wrong with Franklin because when he stood up in front of people
he was always behind a stand that hid the fact that he had polio. Franklin
D. Roosevelt was president during the Great Depression. He did start off
fast. He’s famous for his first hundred days of his administration where
Congress passed almost all the bills he presented to them. He introduced a
lot of bills to fight the Great Depression. Franklin made a lot of things
happen for a lot of people. That’s when Franklin started the New Deal. In one
example The New Deal gave 10,000 men work at the New York State Park,
planting trees, building roads, park builds, taking measures to prevent
erosion. That was only one of the successful New Deal programs. The programs
that Franklin started helped a lot of people with ending the Great
Depression. Franklin
D. Roosevelt was also president during World War II. When World War II
started it ended the Great Depression. In 1939, men and woman started working
in factories making weapons, ships, and airplanes to help out the war.
Franklin was still making other programs to help with the war. Franklin
presided over the greatest expansion to centralized federal power in the
history of US. According to many Republicans and conservatives Franklin was
laying the foundations for the bloated bureaucracy that survives to this day. On
March 30,1945, Roosevelt went to Warm Springs to rest before his anticipated
appearance on April 25 in San Francisco. Franklin was getting a portrait of
himself painted by Elizabeth Shoumatoff. On April 12, Franklin was sitting in
a chair signing letters, his legs propped up on a stool, while Elizabeth
worked on her easel. Franklin complained that he had a headache. The doctor
was summoned, and when he got there Franklin was carried to bed. The doctor
immediately noticed the obvious hemorrhage. At 3:31 pm Franklin was
pronounced dead. After Franklin passed away the people put a memorial service
on for him to remember all the stuff he had done for them while he was
president. 12/20/2005 |
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