Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President
Born: 1882 Died: 1945 Served: 1933 - 1945

Vice-President John N. Garner
Political Party Democrat
College Harvard
Occupation Lawyer
Birthplace Hyde Park, NY
Place of Burial Hyde Park, NY

Pop Quiz Facts

* 1933: Launches New Deal relief measures within first 100 days of office to ease the toll of the Great Depression.
* 1934: Becomes first president to visit Latin America.
* 1935: Signs Social Security Act.
* 1941: Asks Congress to declare war on Japan following attack on Pearl Harbor.
* 1945: Meets with Britain's Winston Churchill and USSR's Joseph Stalin to discuss terms of peace and the post-World War II world.
* 1945: Dies in Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12.

Interesting Facts

* A stamp collector, FDR received the first sheet of every new commemorative issue.
* In 1939, he became the first president to appear on television.
* He was the first president in office to visit an overseas war zone.
* During World War II, Mrs. Roosevelt visited Japanese-American internment camps to show her sympathy to the internees.
* FDR was related by either blood or marriage to eleven other Presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Ulysses Grant, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, James Madison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Zachary Taylor, Martin Van Buren and George Washington.

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