Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882 – 1945 American thirty-second president of the United States
Four-term president who built the New Deal, led the country through the Depression and most of the Second World War, and greatly expanded the federal government.
- Religion
- Episcopalian
- Affiliations
- Democratic Party
Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency in 1932 amid the Great Depression and reshaped American government through the New Deal, creating Social Security, deposit insurance, securities regulation, and a wave of new agencies. He took the dollar off the domestic gold standard and pressed a large program of relief and recovery. He led the country into the Second World War after Pearl Harbor, authorised the Manhattan Project, and helped design the postwar order at Bretton Woods. His record also includes the wartime internment of Japanese Americans. He died in office in April 1945, early in his fourth term.
Connections
- successor of Harry Truman — Succeeded him as president in 1945.
- family of Theodore Roosevelt — Fifth cousin; his niece Eleanor married FDR.
- family of Theodore Roosevelt — Fifth cousin; married TR's niece Eleanor.
- ally of Winston Churchill — Key wartime ally against the Axis powers.
- ally of Winston Churchill — Wartime allies against the Axis.
In the timeline
- 1911 Franklin D. Roosevelt is initiated a Freemason central figure
- 1932 Mayor Jimmy Walker resigns mentioned
- 1933 The New Deal and the Alphabet Agencies the president who built it
- 1933 Launch of the New Deal president
- 1933 Roosevelt takes the dollar off the domestic gold standard the president who ordered it
- 1933 Roosevelt takes the United States off gold president
- 1934 Founding of the SEC the president who created it
- 1935 Social Security Act the president who signed it
- 1935 Eye and pyramid added to the dollar bill mentioned
- 1940 FDR reelected to a third term mentioned
- 1942 – 1945 Founding and Dissolution of the OSS the president who created the OSS
- 1942 – 1947 Launch of the Manhattan Project the president who authorised it
- 1944 Bretton Woods Conference sets the postwar monetary order the president whose administration led it
- 1945 FDR takes his fourth oath of office mentioned
- 1945 Roosevelt dies and Truman becomes president mentioned
- 1945 Franklin Roosevelt dies; Truman becomes president mentioned