Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd US President, serving four terms before his death in 1945. He led the country out of the Great Depression and World War II. Despite contracting polio, he rebounded politically and established a polio rehabilitation center. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1945.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, or simply FDR as he was and still is affectionately called, was the 32nd president of the United States. Roosevelt was elected in 1932 and served an unprecedented four terms before his death in office in 1945. Although Roosevelt is remembered for numerous contributions to his country and the medical adversities he overcame, many people remember him as the man who led the country out of the Great Depression and World War II.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only child born into an upper-class family in New York City in 1882. Related to former President Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt entered politics through public service shortly after attending Harvard and Columbia universities. FDR won the New York State Senate in 1910 and was nominated for Democratic vice president in 1920.
The following summer, Roosevelt contracted polio. He battled the debilitating disease with the support of his wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. As FDR’s condition improved, humanitarian efforts took precedence over his political efforts. Roosevelt had witnessed the difficulties many people had in providing good medical care and subsequently established a polio rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he would later spend the last days of his life.
Roosevelt’s political career rebounded in the wake of his recovery. He became governor of New York in 1928 and then won the presidential election in 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression. The country looked to the man whose famous line, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” has lingered long after his term expired. Roosevelt took economic measures to help the country regain its footing, and although big business feared his experimental policies, the country re-elected Roosevelt three more times.
Shortly after his fourth term began, Roosevelt’s health was again failing. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs on April 12, 1945 at the age of 63. Vice President Harry Truman took over the Oval Office for the remainder of his term.
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