Franklin Delano Roosevelt^{[1, 2]}

1882 - 1945  (63 years)

• Name	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  Birth	30 Jan 1882	Hyde Park, Dutchess, New York
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Apr 1945	Hyde Park, Dutchess, New York
  Death	12 Apr 1945	Warm Springs, Meriwether, Georgia
  Person ID	I6580	Scudder
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2002

  
  

  Father	James Roosevelt,   b. 16 Jul 1828, Hyde Park, Dutchess, Ny d. 8 Sep 1900, Hyde Park, Dutchess, Ny (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Sara Delano,   b. 21 Sep 1854, Algonac, Orange, Ny d. 7 Sep 1941, Hyde Park, Dutchess, Ny (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	7 Oct 1880	Algonac, New York
  Family ID	F2376	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt,   b. 11 Oct 1884, New York City, New York, New York d. 7 Nov 1962, New York City, New York, New York (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	17 Mar 1905	New York, New York
  Children	1. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt,   b. 3 May 1906   d. 1975 (Age 68 years)   2. James Roosevelt,   b. 23 Dec 1907   d. 1991 (Age 83 years)   3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt,   b. 18 Mar 1909, New York City, New York county, New York d. 8 Nov 1909, New York City, New York county, New York (Age 0 years)   4. Elliott Roosevelt,   b. 23 Sep 1910, New York City, New York county, New York d. 1990 (Age 79 years)   5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt,   b. 17 Aug 1914, Campobello, New Brunswick, Canada d. 17 Aug 1988, Poughkeepsie, , New York (Age 74 years)   6. John Aspinwall Roosevelt,   b. 13 Mar 1916, Washington D.c., , Washington D.c. d. 27 Apr 1981, New York City, New York county, New York (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F2378	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Franklin attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt. Following the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920. In the summer of 1921, when he was 39, he was stricken with poliomyelitis. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York. He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority. By 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen and bankers were turning more and more against Roosevelt's New Deal program. They feared his experiments, were appalled because he had taken the Nation off the gold standard and allowed deficits in the budget, and disliked the concessions to labor. Roosevelt responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed. In 1936 he was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy. Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great Britain all possible aid short of actual military involvement. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war. Feeling that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations between the United States and Russia, he devoted much thought to the planning of a United Nations, in which, he hoped, international difficulties could be settled. As the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

  
  

• Sources

  [S109] Partial Genealogy of Descendants of Elizabeth Scudder-E, Section II, Bulletin XXX, p. 29. [S127] Ancestral File (R).