Politics · 1882–1945
Born: 30 January 1882 · Died: 12 April 1945 · Age at death: 63
Franklin Delano Roosevelt died aged 63. He was born on 30 January 1882 and died on 12 April 1945.
32nd US President, elected four times, who led America through the Great Depression with the New Deal and through most of the Second World War
Did you know?He was a distant cousin of his wife, Eleanor, and was also related to the former president Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt led the United States through two of its greatest crises, the Great Depression and the Second World War. His New Deal programmes created jobs, banking protections and Social Security, permanently expanding the role of government in American life. He used radio brilliantly, speaking directly to families in his relaxed 'fireside chats'. Paralysed from the waist down by illness at 39, he largely kept the extent of his disability out of public view. He is the only US president to have been elected four times, which led to a constitutional limit of two terms.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms.
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32nd US president, born 1882
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park on 30 January 1882.
He was paralysed by polio in 1921.
He launched the New Deal in 1933.
He is the only president elected four times.
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Did you know?His 'fireside chats' on radio reached millions of homes.
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The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States is a treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933, during the Seventh International Conference of American States. At the conference, United States President Franklin D.
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The Casablanca Conference (codenamed SYMBOL) or Anfa Conference was held in Casablanca, French Morocco, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
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The Cairo Conference (codenamed Sextant), also known as the First Cairo Conference, was one of fourteen summit meetings during World War II, which took place on 22–26 November 1943. The Conference was held at Cairo in Egypt between China, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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