OVERVIEW:

BORN:
January 30, 1882;
Hyde Park, New York

DIED:
April 12, 1945 (age 63);
Warm Springs, Georgia

PARENTS:
Sara Delano,
James Roosevelt

EDUCATION:
Tutored at Home until 1896,
Groton School (1896-1900),
Harvard University (1900-1903, BA in History)
Columbia Law School (no degree)

CHILDREN:
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1906-1975),
James Roosevelt (1907-1990),
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (1909),
Elliott Roosevelt (1910- 1990),
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. ( 1914-1988)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

HIGHLIGHTS:
1907:
Passed Bar Exam
1911-1913:
New York State Senator
1913-1920:
Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy
1920:
Democratic Nominee for Vice President
1921:
Stricken with Polio While Vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick.
1924
Nominated Al Smith for President at the Democratic National Convention
1929-1932:
Governor of New York
1933-1945:
32nd President of the United States

FIRST LADY:

VICE PRESIDENTS:

RESOURCES:

Franklin D. Roosevelt with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin at Livadia Palace, Yalta in the Crimea, Soviet Union. February 9, 1945. (US Army Photograph/ FDR Library)

BIOGRAPHIES:
FDR Library
White House
American National Biography
American Presidents (C-SPAN)

RESEARCH:
FDR Presidential Library
Franklin (FDR Library Digital Collection)
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Papers (George Washington University)
Public Papers (American Presidency Project)
Public Papers (National Archives)
UVA Miller Center

OBITUARIES:
New York Times

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

**NO ORDINARY TIME** by Doris Kearns Goodwin

1932 ELECTION:

DEMOCRATS:
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (PRESIDENT)
JOHN GARNER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 472 (88.9%)
Popular Vote: 22,818,740 (57.4%)

REPUBLICANS:
HERBERT C. HOOVER (PRESIDENT)
CHARLES CURTIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 59 (11.1%)
Popular Vote: 15,760,425 (39.6%)

1936 ELECTION:

DEMOCRATS:
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (PRESIDENT
JOHN GARNER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 523 (98.5%)
Popular Vote: 27,750,866 (60.8%)

REPUBLICANS:
ALFRED M. LANDON (PRESIDENT)
FRANK KNOX (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 8 (1.5%)
Popular Vote: 16,679,683 (36.5%)

1940 ELECTION:

DEMOCRATS:
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (PRESIDENT)
HENRY A. WALLACE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 449 (84.6%)
Popular Vote: 27,243,218 (54.7%)

REPUBLICANS:
WENDELL WILLKIE (PRESIDENT)
CHARLES L. MCNARY (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 82 (15.4%)
Popular Vote: 22,334,940 (44.8%)

1944 ELECTION:

DEMOCRATS:
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (PRESIDENT)
HARRY S. TRUMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 432 (81.4%)
Popular Vote: 25,612,610 (45.9%)

REPUBLICANS:
THOMAS E. DEWEY (PRESIDENT
JOHN W. BRICKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 99 (18.6%)
Popular Vote: 22,014,160 (45.9%)

INAUGURATIONS:

Four Presidential Inaugurations (FDR Library)
1933 Address (Transcript and Audio, Video, Washington Post)
1937 Address (Reading Copy, Transcript and Audio)
1941 Address (Transcript and Audio, Video)
1945 Address (Transcript and Audio, Video)
Library of Congress (1933, 1937, 1941, 1945)
Joint Congressional Committee (1933, 1937, 1941, 1945)

ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION:

President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with his cabinet during an emergency session in 1938. Seated clockwise are FDR , Henry Morgenthau, Homer Cummings, Claude A. Swanson, Henry A. Wallace, Frances Perkins, Harry Woodring, and Cordell Hull (Library of Congress)

PRESS SECRETARY:
Stephen T. Early (1933–1945)

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE:
Henry A. Wallace (1933–1940)
Claude R. Wickard (1940–1945)

BUDGET DIRECTOR:
Lewis W. Douglas (1933-1934)
Daniel W. Bell (1934-1939)
Harold D. Smith (1939-1946)

SECRETARY OF COMMERCE:
Daniel C. Roper (1933–1938)
Harry L. Hopkins (1938–1940)
Jesse H. Jones (1940–1945)
Henry A. Wallace (1945)

SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR:
Harold L. Ickes (1933–1945)

ATTORNEY GENERAL:
Homer S. Cummings (1933–1939)
Frank Murphy (1939–1940)
Robert H. Jackson (1940–1941)
Francis B. Biddle (1941–1945)

SECRETARY OF LABOR:
Frances Perkins (1933–1945)

SECRETARY OF THE NAVY:
Claude A. Swanson (1933–1939)
Charles Edison (1940)
Frank Knox (1940–1944)
James V. Forrestal (1944–1945)

POSTMASTER GENERAL:
James A. Farley (1933–1940)
Frank C. Walker (1940–1945)

SECRETARY OF STATE:
Cordell Hull (1933–1944)
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (1944–1945)

SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY:
William H. Woodin (1933)
Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1934–1945)

ADMINISTRATOR OF VETERANS AFFAIRS:
Frank T. Hines (1923-1945)

SECRETARY OF WAR:
George H. Dern (1933–1936)
Harry H. Woodring (1937–1940)
Henry L. Stimson (1940–1945)

CHAIRMAN OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE:
Eugene R. Black (1933-1934)
Marriner S. Eccles (1934-1948)

ADVISORS:
Louis Howe
Samuel Rosenman
W. Averell Harriman
William D. Leahy
Marguerite “Missy” LeHand
Grace Tully
Benjamin V. Cohen
Joseph P. Kennedy
Pa Watson
Marvin H. McIntyre
Sumner Welles

CONGRESS:

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE:
Henry T. Rainey (1933-1935)
Joseph W. Byrns (1935-1936)
William B. Bankhead (1936-1940)
Samuel T. Rayburn (1940-1947, 1949-1953, 1955-1961)

SENATE MAJORITY LEADER:
Joseph T. Robinson (1933-1937)
Alben Barkley (1937-1947)

SUPREME COURT NOMINEES:

The Supreme Court in October 1941. Seated, from left: Justices Stanley F. Reed and Owen J. Roberts, Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, and Justices Hugo L. Black and Felix Frankfurter; standing, from left: Justices James F. Byrnes, William O. Douglas, Frank Murphy, and Robert H. Jackson (Photo Credit, Harris & Ewing Studio, Supreme Court Collection)

Hugo L. Black (1937-1971)
Stanley F. Reed (1938-1957)
Felix Frankfurter (1939-1962)
William O. Douglas (1939-1975)
Frank Murphy (1940-1949)
Harlan F. Stone (Chief Justice, 1941-1946)
James F. Byrnes (1941-1942)
Robert H. Jackson (1941-1954)
Wiley Rutledge (1943-1949)

HISTORIC SITES:

Home of Franklin Roosevelt (New York)
Roosevelt’s Little White House (Georgia)
FDR Memorial (Washington, DC)
Roosevelt Campobello International Park