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American President: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

At a Glance

32nd President of the United States (1933-1945)

Born: January 30, 1882, Hyde Park, New York

Nickname: "FDR"

Education: Harvard College (graduated 1903), Columbia Law School

Religion: Episcopalian

Marriage: March 17, 1905, to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Children: Anna Eleanor (1906-1975), James (1907-1991), Franklin Delano Jr. (1909), Elliott (1910-1990), Franklin Delano Jr. (1914-1988), John Aspinwall (1916-1981)

Career: Public Official, Lawyer

Political Party: Democrat

Writings: The Happy Warrior, Alfred E. Smith (1928), F.D.R.: His Personal Letters (4 vols., 1947-50), ed. by Elliott Roosevelt

Died: April 12, 1945, Warm Springs, Georgia

Buried: Hyde Park, New York

A Life in Brief: Faced with the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, nicknamed "FDR," guided America through its greatest domestic crisis, with the exception of the Civil War, and its greatest foreign crisis. His presidency -- which spanned twelve years -- was unparalleled, not only in length but in scope. More....

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Essays on Franklin Delano Roosevelt and His Administration


Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A Life in Brief • Life Before the Presidency • Campaigns and Elections • Domestic Affairs • Foreign Affairs • Death of the President • Family Life • The American Franchise • Impact and Legacy • Key Events
First Lady
Anna Roosevelt
Vice President
John N. Garner (1933 - 1941) • Henry A. Wallace (1941 - 1945) • Harry Truman (1945)
Secretary of State
Cordell Hull (1933 - 1944) • Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (1944 - 1945)
Secretary of War
George H. Dern (1933 - 1936) • Harry H. Woodring (1936 - 1940) • Henry L. Stimson (1940 - 1945)
Postmaster General
James A. Farley (1933 - 1940) • Frank C. Walker (1940 - 1945)
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes (1933 - 1945)
Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper (1933 - 1938) • Harry L. Hopkins (1938 - 1940) • Jesse H. Jones (1940 - 1945) • Henry A. Wallace (1945)
Secretary of the Treasury
William H. Woodin (1933 - 1933) • Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1934 - 1945)
Attorney General
Homer S. Cummings (1933 - 1939) • Frank Murphy (1939 - 1940) • Robert H. Jackson (1940 - 1941) • Francis B. Biddle (1941 - 1945)
Secretary of the Navy
Claude A. Swanson (1933 - 1939) • Frank Knox (1940 - 1944) • Charles Edison (1940 - 1940) • James V. Forrestal (1944 - 1945)
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace (1933 - 1940) • Claude R. Wickard (1940 - 1945)
Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins (1933 - 1945)

Consulting Editor: William E. Leuchtenburg

Professor Leuchtenburg is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His writings include:

The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (Louisiana State University Press, 2005)

The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy (Columbia University Press, 1995)

The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32 (University of Chicago Press, 1993)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 (Harper Collins, 1963)


Presidential Speeches

Below are selections from the Miller Center's Franklin Delano Roosevelt speech collection. To view the Miller Center's other speeches by Franklin Delano Roosevelt or by another President, please click the link below.

 March 4, 1933 - First Inaugural Address

 March 9, 1937 - Fireside Chat 9, On "Court Packing"

 January 6, 1941 - State of the Union (Four Freedoms)

 December 8, 1941 - Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War

 December 24, 1943 - Fireside Chat 27, On the Tehran and Cairo Conference

Miller Center Scholarship and Speakers

The Miller Center of Public Affairs is a national nonpartisan center to research, reflect, and report on American government, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency. Below is a selection of Miller Center resources on Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

 Watch Journalist Jon Meacham’s 2003 presentation at the Miller Center on Roosevelt and Churchill .

President Franklin Roosevelt led the country as Commander in Chief during World War II. Click here to learn more about the Miller Center's National War Powers Commission.

Click here to learn more about the Center’s National Commission on Presidential Press Conferences and its relationship to Roosevelt.

Scripps Library Reference Resources

Below are links to reference resources prepared by the Miller Center's Scripps Library that are designed to help students and scholars quickly conduct their research.

Information on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Private and Public Papers


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