Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career. Some find him an average undergraduate; others detect a natural propensity for class leadership. Some emphasize his ...

This footage shows crowds of mourners at Roosevelt’s grave ... suggests judges' scoring may be part of issue I'm 72 years old, healthy, retired for 5 years and completely bored with my life ...

Harding for president, while Democratic nominee James M. Cox chooses 38-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt to be his running mate. FDR campaigns with relish, and eventually persuades Eleanor to join ...

This has long been the case with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. To many on the right, he is the man responsible for the near-total destruction of local democracy. For many on the left ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born on January 30 ... takes the oath of office and, at 42 years old, he becomes the youngest president in American history. After William McKinley's assassination ...

WASHINGTON -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United ... He proposed to use the materials of social justice to "erect on the old foundations a more enduring structure for the ...

There was a view that Hoover did too little, too late. In contrast to President Hoover, Roosevelt was charismatic and an effective public speaker. He toured the country meeting voters and ...

A stone tablet to United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was unveiled at Westminster Abbey on 12th November 1948. It is situated on the west wall of the nave, near the grave of the Unknown ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor Sara Georgini A new ...