Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

President of the United States, 1933-1945.

Member of Senate State of New York (1910-1913); Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-1920); in charge of inspections of US Naval Forces in European Waters (1918), and of demobilisation in Europe (1919); Governor of the State of New York (1929-1933); Nominated for Vice-President of the United States by Democratic Party (1920); Democratic nominee for President of the United States (1932). Roosevelt (also known as "FDR") won four presidential elections in a row and is the only American president to have served more than two terms.


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