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Also Known As FDR • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Born January 30, 1882 • Hyde Park • New York
Died April 12, 1945 (aged 63) • Warm Springs • Georgia
Title / Office presidency of the United States of America (1933-1945), United States • governor (1929-1933), New York • United States Senate (1911-1913), United States
Founder March of Dimes Foundation
Political Affiliation Democratic Party
Notable Family Members spouse Eleanor Roosevelt
Role In Cairo Conference • Casablanca Conference • Executive Order 8802 • Four Freedoms • Good Neighbor Policy • Great Depression • Japanese American internment • New Deal • Quebec Conference • Selective Service Acts • Tehrān Conference • United States presidential election of 1920 • United States presidential election of 1932 • United States presidential election of 1936 • United States presidential election of 1940 • United States presidential election of 1944 • World War II • Yalta Conference • fireside chats • Pacific War

Did You Know?

  • FDR served England's king and queen hot dogs on their first visit to the U.S.
  • Roosevelt passed the bar exam before dropping out of Columbia Law School.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt smiling and leaning on a surface, holding a cigarette in a holder, wearing a suit and glasses, photographed in 1937.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt waves his hat from the rear platform of a train labeled The Roosevelt Special, joined by Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Roosevelt Dall, and Mrs. James Roosevelt, with onlookers below.
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