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Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd president of the United States
Also known as: FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Bullit Professor of History, University of Washington, Seattle, 1981–86. Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University, 1972–81. Author of America in the Twentieth Century; Franklin...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (born January 30, 1882, Hyde Park, New York, U.S.—died April 12, 1945, Warm Springs, Georgia) was the 32nd president of the United States (1933–45). The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II. In so doing, he greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs...

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