Franklin D. Roosevelt

Running head : Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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I . Introduction

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States (31st man to hold this office . Franklin D . Roosevelt , a Democrat , was President longer than any other man , having been elected four times FDR , as he was called by the press was a magnetic , dynamic leader . He led the country out of its worst business depression and brought it to within sight of victory in the greatest war of all time . During his tenure , he generated a

political revolution , bringing government into greater participation in American life than even before . As a result of these sweeping changes , Roosevelt inspired more loyalty and aroused deeper opposition than any President in history . He had served 12 years 1 month , and 8 days when he died on April 12 , 1945 . Roosevelt was the seventh President to die in the office (Alsop , 2002

Thesis Statement : The researcher of this study intent to investigate the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt , thus , bringing out in-depth discussions of what kind of life does Delano Roosevelt has gone through before he became a president

II . Background

When Roosevelt was first inaugurated on March 4 , 1933 , the United States was in the fourth year of disastrous depression . He promised the people a new deal ' Assuring them that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself ' he attacked the depression on many fronts . He experimented with many programs some were successful , others were not (Leuchtenburg , 2003

More far-reaching legislation was enacted under the Roosevelt administration than under that of any other President . Many of these laws were bitterly opposed a few were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court . But bank deposits were insured stock exchanges were put under federal regulation labor won the right of collective bargaining and unemployment insurance and old-age pensions became part of the American way of life

Roosevelt 's critics charged him with being largely responsible for the participation of the United States in World War II . His supporters however , credited him with recognizing the danger to democracy of victory by war did come , Roosevelt did not spare himself . Despite paralysis of his legs , the result of a polio attack in 1921 , he traveled widely , building morale and quickening the war effort (Freidel , 2003 . He attended conferences with Allied leaders in Morocco , Egypt , Iran , and Canada , and at Yalta in Russia

Roosevelt helped to sponsor the United Nations and gained the support of prominent Republicans so that it did not meet the fate of the League of Nations . The conference that established the United Nations opened on April 25 , 1945 , at San Francisco , 13 days after Roosevelt 's death

III . Discussion and Summary

From 1907 to 1910 , Roosevelt practiced law as a junior member of a prominent law firm in New York City . In 1910 , after being a delegate to the Democratic State Convention , he was asked by the party to become the Democratic nominee for state senator from the...