Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

Born 30 Jan 1882 in Hyde Park, Dutchess, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt — married 17 Mar 1905 in New York City, New York County, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 12 Apr 1945 at age 63 in Warm Springs, Meriwether, Georgia, United States

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Preceded by 31st President Herbert Hoover Preceded by 42nd Governor Al Smith

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States 1933-1945 44th Governor of New York 1929-1932

Succeeded by 33rd President Harry S. Truman Succeeded by 45th Governor Herbert H. Lehman

Biography

Franklin Roosevelt is Notable.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (often called FDR) was the thirty-second president of the United States. He served from 1933 through 1945. Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York--now a national historic site--he was the son of James Roosevelt and Sarah Delano. Franklin attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (30 January 1882 – 12 April 1945) 04 March 1933 – 12 April 1945 Initiated to the Freemasonry on 11 October 1911 in Holland Lodge No. 8, New York City. Made Honorary Grand Master of the Order of DeMolay on 13 April 1934.

Following the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920.

In the summer of 1921, when he was 39, disaster hit-he was stricken with poliomyelitis. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York.

He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

By 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen and bankers were turning more and more against Roosevelt's New Deal program. They feared his experiments, were appalled because he had taken the Nation off the gold standard and allowed deficits in the budget, and disliked the concessions to labor. Roosevelt responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.

In 1936 he was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy.

Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great Britain all possible aid short of actual military involvement.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 07 December 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war.

Feeling that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations between the United States and Russia, he devoted much thought to the planning of a United Nations, in which, he hoped, international difficulties could be settled.

As the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on 12 April 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Funeral services were held 16 April 1945 at Notre Dame for United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a way to honor him.

Ancestry

^[1]President Franklin D. Roosevelt → Sara Delano → Warren Delano → Warren Delano → Ephraim Delano → Thomas Delano → Mercy Warren → Nathaniel Warren → RICHARD WARREN

Franklin D. Roosevelt → Sara Delano → Warren Delano → Warren Delano → Elizabeth Cushman → James Cushman → Eleazer Cushman → MARY ALLERTON → ISAAC ALLERTON

Franklin D. Roosevelt → Sara Delano → Warren Delano → Warren Delano → Elizabeth Cushman → James Cushman → Elizabeth Coombs → John Coombs → Sarah Priest → DEGORY PRIEST

Franklin D. Roosevelt → Sara Delano → Warren Delano → Deborah Church → Deborah Perry → Samuel Perry → Ebenezer Perry → Esther Taber → Esther Cooke → JOHN COOKE → FRANCIS COOKE

Franklin D. Roosevelt → James Roosevelt → Mary Aspinwall → Susan Howland → Joseph Howland → Nathanial Howland Jr. → Nathanial Howland Sr. → Joseph Howland → JOHN HOWLAND

Descendant of Pilgrims Isaac Allerton, Francis Cooke, John Howland, Degory Priest, John Tilley and Richard Warren.

FDR was also related to:

Winston Churchill (7th cousin once removed, maternal)

John Quincy Adams (paternal)

John Adams (paternal)

Ulysses S. Grant (maternal)

Zachary Taylor (maternal)

Jefferson Davis (maternal)

James Madison (maternal)

George Washington (maternal)

Robert E. Lee (maternal)

Benjamin Harrison (maternal)

William Henry Harrison (maternal)

William Howard Taft (maternal)

Martin Van Buren (paternal)

Sources

1. ↑ http://mayflowerhistory.com

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• List of Presidents who were Freemasons

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• Photos, www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/photos, accessed March 13, 2007.

• "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2718-9Y1 : 3 June 2020), Franklin D. Roosevelt in entry for Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 1 Nov 1909; citing Death, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,323,229.

• Also see:

Sources for Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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• Beth Britten's biography of her brother Benjamin Britten the composer, entitled 'My Brother Benjamin', published by The Kensal Press in 1986 (ISBN 0-946041-40-7), includes extensive family trees. Hundreds of friends, professional connections and people in the 'music world' are also mentioned in the text.'My Brother Benjamin' by his sister Beth Britten