Born January 30, 1882 Hyde Park, New York

Died April 12, 1945 Warm Springs, Georgia

Thirty-second president of the United States

Franklin Roosevelt. ©Bettmann/CORBIS. Reproduced by permission.

"[Election] campaigns always stimulated Roosevelt enormously. He liked going around the country. He enjoyed the freedom and getting out among the people. His personal relationship with crowds was on a warm, simple level of a friendly, neighborly exchange of affection.…"

Frances Perkins, in The Roosevelt I Knew

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second president of the United States and commonly referred to as FDR, is the only person in U.S. history to be elected president four times. After serving as New York's governor from 1929 to 1933, Roosevelt entered the White House in March 1933, during the worst economic crisis the nation had ever experienced, the Great Depression. With charm, an optimistic grin, and a willingness to surround himself with able advisers, Roosevelt...