Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the thirty-second president of the United States during 1933-1945. He took on being the president during the Great Depression. He gave many people hope during a difficult time in history. He gave a powerful in an inaugural speech that promised prompt action. The one sentence that still is remembered is "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." This is something we all could live by until this day.

President Roosevelt attended school at Harvard University and Columbia Law School. He married Eleanor in 1905. Following the footsteps of his admired cousin he joined public service. He entered as a Democrat and ran for election as the New York Senator. He won this position in 1910. Then President Wilson elected him Assistant Secretary of the Navy and became the nominee for Vice President in 1920.

President Roosevelt was elected into Office as the President in November, 1932. This was to be the first of four terms of his presidency. In the first "hundred days" of Office he proposed and Congress enacted a sweeping program to bring recovery to businesses and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and those in danger of losing farms and homes. By 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery. Bankers and business men were beginning to dislike him. Roosevelt responded by a new program, Social Security. It demanded higher taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.

He was well liked by the people. He brought a lot of policies that we still use today.

Concerned with aggressors around the world, he devoted much time into the planning of the United Nations, in which, he hoped international difficulties could be settled. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of