Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
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32nd President of the United States | |
In office March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945 |
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Vice Presidents |
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Preceded by | Herbert Hoover |
Succeeded by | Harry S. Truman |
44th Governor of New York | |
In office January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932 |
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Lieutenant | Herbert H. Lehman |
Preceded by | Al Smith |
Succeeded by | Herbert H. Lehman |
Assistant Secretary of the Navy | |
In office March 17, 1913 – August 26, 1920 |
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President | Woodrow Wilson |
Preceded by | Beekman Winthrop |
Succeeded by | Gordon Woodbury |
Member of the New York State Senate for the 26th District |
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In office January 1, 1911 – March 17, 1913 |
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Preceded by | John F. Schlosser |
Succeeded by | James E. Towner |
Personal details | |
Born |
Hyde Park, New York, U.S. |
January 30, 1882
Died | April 12, 1945 Warm Springs, Georgia, U.S. |
(aged 63)
Resting place | Home of FDR National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Eleanor Roosevelt (m. 1905) |
Relations | See Roosevelt family and Delano family |
Children | |
Parents |
James Roosevelt I Sara Roosevelt |
Education | |
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Supreme Court Appointments by President Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||
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Position | Name | Term |
Chief Justice | Harlan Fiske Stone | 1941–1946 |
Associate Justice | Hugo Black | 1937–1971 |
Stanley Forman Reed | 1938–1957 | |
Felix Frankfurter | 1939–1962 | |
William O. Douglas | 1939–1975 | |
Frank Murphy | 1940–1949 | |
James F. Byrnes | 1941–1942 | |
Robert H. Jackson | 1941–1954 | |
Wiley Blount Rutledge | 1943–1949 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (/ˈroʊzəvəlt/, his own pronunciation, or /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
Running as a Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections (no other President had served more than two terms), was the longest-running president in U.S. history, and dominated his party after 1932 as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century. He directed the United States government during an era of worldwide economic depression and total war.
His program for relief, recovery, and reform, known as the New Deal, involved a great expansion of the federal government's role in the economy. As a dominant leader of the Democratic Party, he built the New Deal Coalition that brought together and united labor unions, big city machines, white ethnics, African Americans, and rural white Southerners in support of the party. The Coalition significantly realigned American politics after 1932, creating the Fifth Party System and defining American liberalism throughout the middle third of the 20th century.