PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

32nd President of the United States (March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945) Nickname: "FDR" Born: January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York Died: April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia Father: James Roosevelt Mother: Sara Delano Roosevelt Married: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), on March 17, 1905 Children: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1906-75); James Roosevelt (1907-91); Elliott Roosevelt (1910-90); Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (1914-88); John Aspinwall Roosevelt (1916-81) Religion: Episcopalian Education: Graduated from Harvard College (1903); Attended Columbia Law School Occupation: Public official, lawyer Political Party: Democrat Other Government Positions: Member of New York State Legislature, 1911-13 Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20 Governor of New York, 1929-33 Presidential Salary: $75,000/year Points of Interest: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's mother forced him to wear a dress until he was five years old. Genealogists have determined that FDR was related to: George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft. In 1933, FDR declared that Home on the Range was his favorite song. Franklin D. Roosevelt held the record for the number of times he met with the press: 998 times.

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