Notes
Life's Chronology of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1882 Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York. 1900 Studies at Harvard University
1904 Law studies at New York City's Columbia University
1905 Marriage with Eleanor, a distant cousin, niece of Theodore Roosevelt
1910 Enter into the political arena. Elected as a Democrat to the New York State Senate
1912 Re-election. Appointed by Wilson as Assistant Secretary of the Navy
1920 Chosen as the running mate of presidential candidate James M.Cox. Defeat of their team
1921 Stricken by poliomyelitis
1924 Resumes his political career. (Beginning of treatment at Warm Springs, a Georgia summer resort)
1928 Elected Governor of New York
1930 Re-election to the Governorship
1932 Nominated Democratic Presidential Candidate
1932 (Nov. 9) Elected President of the United States. Beginning of a reform program known as the "New Deal"
1936 (Nov.) Re-election by the largest electoral margin in recent American history, 523 to 8.
1939 (Sept. 1) Germany invades Poland
1940 (Nov.) Re-elected President of the United States
1941 (Dec.7) Japanese attack on the American Naval base of Pearl Harbour. America enters the war
1944 (Nov.) Fourth re-election (1s1 American President ever to be elected four times)
1945 (Apr. 12) Death at Warm Springs from a massive cerebral haemorrhage
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