Franklin D. Roosevelt

BIRTH NAME
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

POLITICAL PARTY
Democrat

RELIGION
Episcopalian

EDUCATION
Harvard A.B. 1903; Columbia Law School

VITALS
6 ft 2 in / 188 lbs

CAREER
1908-11 Practiced law, Carter Ledyard & Milburn, New York City
1911-13 State Senator, New York
1913-20 Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Wilson)
1914 Unsuccessful campaign for U.S. Senator, New York
1920 Unsuccessful campaign for U.S. Vice President
1921-29 Practiced law, New York City
1925 Chair, Taconic State Park Commission
1929-33 Governor of New York

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 8, 1932
Popular: Roosevelt 22,829,501 (57%) Herbert Hoover 15,760,684 (40%)
Electoral: Roosevelt 472 Hoover 59
November 3, 1936
Popular: Roosevelt 27,757,333 (61%) Alfred M. Landon 16,684,231 (37%)
Electoral: Roosevelt 523 Landon 8
November 5, 1940
Popular: Roosevelt 27,313,041 (55%) Wendell Willkie 22,348,480 (45%)
Electoral: Roosevelt 449 Willkie 82
November 7, 1944
Popular: Roosevelt 25,612,610 (53%) Thomas Dewey 22,017,617 (46%)
Electoral: Roosevelt 432 Dewey 99

VICE PRESIDENTS
John Nance Garner (1933-41)
Henry A. Wallace (1941-45)
Harry S. Truman (1945)

ADMINISTRATION
20th Amendment (January 20 inauguration), 21st Amendment (Repeal prohibition), New Deal initiatives (1933); Dust Bowl (1934); Social Security Act, Neutrality Act (1935); Supreme Court packing proposal (1937); Germany invades Poland (1939); Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, Pearl Harbor, Declaration of War on Germany & Italy (1941); Japanese-American internment (1942); Italy surrenders, Tehran Conference (1943); D-Day, Liberation of Paris (1944); Yalta Conference (1945)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Hugo Black, Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Frank Murphy, Harlan Stone (Chief), James F. Byrnes, Robert Jackson, Wiley Rutledge

FIRST LADY
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1933-45)

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt by Frank Salisbury, 1947.