Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president and the only one to have served more than two terms.
Background
- Born in
- Hyde Park
- Educated at
- Harvard CollegeGroton SchoolColumbia Law School
- Awards
- 🏆 Time Person of the Year🏆 Médaille militaire🏆 Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William🏆 American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame🏆 Albert Medal
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"If you treat people right they will treat you right — ninety percent of the time."
"Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him."
"Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "malice domestic and fierce foreign war." We are not ri…"
"In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than l…"
"All work undertaken should be useful — not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Na…"
"To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock — to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be. If…"
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Timeline
1882
Born
Birth1945
Died
Death
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