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Franklin D. Roosevelt Posters
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Thirty-Second
President (1933-1945)
Born: January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York
Died: April 12, 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia
Married to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
 Eleanor Roosevelt 24.00x36.00in. Poster |
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 24.00x36.00in. Poster |
 Great American Women - Eleanor Roosevelt 17.00x22.00in. Poster |
 The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin at Yalta, 1945 20.00x16.00in. Photograph |
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The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin at Yalta, 1945 14.00x11.00in. Photograph |
 Collard Greens 19.00x25.00in. Print |
 V for Victory - Franklin D. Roosevelt 18.00x24.00in. Print |
 V for Victory - Franklin D. Roosevelt 32.00x44.00in. Print |
Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D.
Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought
hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural
Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York--now a national historic site--he
attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick's Day,
1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt.
Following the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt,
whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service
through politics, but as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate
in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and
he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920.
In the summer of 1921, when he was 39, disaster hit-he was stricken with
poliomyelitis. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the
use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic
Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith
as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York.
He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By
March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In
his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping
program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the
unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform,
especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
By 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen
and bankers were turning more and more against Roosevelt's New Deal program.
They feared his experiments, were appalled because he had taken the Nation
off the gold standard and allowed deficits in the budget, and disliked the
concessions to labor. Roosevelt responded with a new program of reform:
Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and
public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.
In 1936 he was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a
popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which
had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme
Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter
the Government could legally regulate the economy.
Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy,
transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into
arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through
neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe,
yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When
France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great
Britain all possible aid short of actual military involvement.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt
directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war.
Feeling that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations
between the United States and Russia, he devoted much thought to the
planning of a United Nations, in which, he hoped, international difficulties
could be settled.
As the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on April
12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.