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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1882 - 1945)
| Timeline |
| 1882 |
Born 30 January |
| 1903 |
Receives B.A. in History from Harvard |
| 1905 |
Marries Anna Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 1906 |
Daughter, Anna Eleanor, born |
| 1907 |
Graduates Columbia Law School |
| 1907 |
Son, James, born |
| 1909 |
Son, Franklin Delano, Jr., born (dies six months later) |
| 1910 |
Successfully runs for New York State Senate; son, Elliott, born |
| 1912 |
Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy under Woodrow Wilson |
| 1914 |
A second Franklin Delano, Jr. born; affair with Lucy Mercer begins |
| 1916 |
Son, John, born |
| 1920 |
Nominated for Vice-President on the ticket with James Cox - is defeated |
| 1921 |
Roosevelt contracts a paralytic illness - widely believed to be polio, but may have been Guillain-Barré syndrome |
| 1927 |
Founds The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation for polio victims |
| 1928 |
Elected Governor of New York |
| 1932 |
Elected President |
| 1933 |
Begins First Hundred Days of New Deal legislation |
| 1935 |
Roosevelt creates the Works Progress Administration to create jobs; signs the Social Security Act |
| 1936 |
Re-elected President |
| 1940 |
Again, re-elected President |
| 1944 |
Re-elected President |
| 1945 |
Dies 12 April |
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