Franklin+Delano+Roosevelt



Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for the Democratic partyin July 1932. Born in 1882, graduated from Harvard University, and had decided to take a job in a law firm, even though he was more iterested in politics. The press called him FDR, so that is were he got the nickname from. Twice he was elected as New York's State Senate. Later he was chosen to become the Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Wilson. FDR had run for Vice President in 1920, but unfortunately he lost. He was later affected by polio, so he never walk without assistance.Due to polio, he spent alot of his time in the 1920s in Warm Springs, Georgia. Eventually he beat Hoover in the Presidential Campaign and became the President of the United States.

Information Provided by: Prentice Hall America Pathyways to the Present Modern American History page 527- 529

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