Franklin Delano Roosevelt was our nation's thirty-second president. Unlike all other presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to four consecutive terms. However, he died during the first year of his fourth term. During his extended presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt accomplished many incredible things as our nation's leader. He got us out of the Great Depression, fixed civil rights issues, created many reforms for our nation including the Twenty-first Amendment, handled the attack on Pearl Harbor, and effectively handled World War II . Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30. 1882 in Hyde Park, New York. He graduated from Harvard and attended Columbia Law School. Although he did not earn his law degree, he passed his bar exam. In 1905, at the age of 25, he married Ann Eleanor Roosevelt, his formerly distant fifth cousin. Together they had seven children. One child, Franklin Jr., died in infancy eight months after birth. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected a New York State senator from 1910 to 1912. He served as assistant secretary of the navy under President Wilson in 1913. In 1920, he was appointed vice president under James Cox, but was defeated in the elections. The following year, he was diagnosed with polio. Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as governor of New York from 1928 to 1932. In 1932, he accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. He was elected the thirty-second President of the United States on November 8, 1932. The Great Depression was a massive economic recession in the United States and other industrialized countries around the world. Although the Great Depression had begun in 1929, when the stock market collapsed, it was the worst in the six months preceding Franklin Delano...... middle of paper ...... with problems similar to those of The presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Some say President Obama is our generation's Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But there will never be a president like Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Works Cited http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm http://www.presidentialtimeline.org/html/ timeline.php?id=32http://millercenter.org/academic /americanpresident/fdroosevelt/essays/biography/4http://memory.loc.gov/learn//features/timeline/depwwii/newdeal/newdeal.htmlhttp:/ /www.lexisnexis.com/documents/academic/upa_cis/fdr% 20documentary%20history-15.pdfhttp://www.usconstitution.net/const.htmlRoosevelt: The Soldier of Liberty 1940-1945 by James MacGregor BurnsFDR in the Storm A History 1937-1940 by Kenneth S. DavisThis Man: A Portrait of Insider of Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert H. Jackson