- Franklin Delano Roosevelt III
Roosevelt upset the party bosses by supporting a rebel Democrat as New York's senator. Roosevelt's dissent group received a lot of publicity and he became a well known figure in New York politics. Roosevelt's abilities were brought to the attention of President Woodrow Wilson and in 1913 he appointed him as assistant secretary of the navy, a post he held for the next six years. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. was the fifth child of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd President of the United States). - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the thirty-second President of the United States. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945, and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. A central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war, … - President Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to James and Sara Roosevelt. His father was 54 at the time of FDR's birth and already had a grown son, nicknamed "Rosy". Sarah was only 27 when FDR was born. Growing up, FDR had a happy but sheltered childhood. His family was very wealthy and FDR had a very privileged childhood, with trips to Europe and private tutors. Sara Roosevelt was a loving but domineering and overprotective mother. FDR was a devoted... - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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I was the 32nd President of the United States, and in case you didn't know, was the best at it. I was so good, I got elected to four terms, and as a result they passed the 22nd amendment so no one could do it again. I saved the U.S. from the depression, formed the strongest political coalition in the history of the United States, created Social Security, led the strongest and quickest military build up in the history of the world, and then went on to win a two front war. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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- Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier and newspaper magnate who was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007. He has written several biographies, including one about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Black is Canadian-born but publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords. - Cordell Hull
Cordell Hull was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest-serving Secretary of State, having held the position for 11 years (1933–1944) in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hull received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations, and was referred to by President Roosevelt as the "Father of the United Nations". Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, … - Harry Hopkins
Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17 1890 - January 29 1946) was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country. In World War II he was Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor and troubleshooter and was a key policy maker in the $50 billion Lend Lease program that sent aid to the allies. - Brain Trust
The "Brain Trust" or "Brains Trust" was the name given to a diverse group of economists, professors, and others who served as advisors to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the early period of his tenure. These men played a key role in shaping the policies of the First New Deal. Although they never met together as a group, they each had Roosevelt's ear. Many newspaper editorials and editorial cartoons ridiculed them as impractical idealists. - Frances Perkins
Frances Coralie Perkins (born Fanny Coralie Perkins, lived April 10 1882 - May 14 1965) was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1947, and the first woman ever appointed to the cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. Perkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Frederick W. Perkins, the owner of a stationer's business, and Susan Bean Perkins, … - John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner IV (November 22, 1868 - November 7, 1967) was a Representative from Texas and the thirty-second Vice President of the United States (1933-41). He was known as Cactus Jack. - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger (October 15 1917 - February 28 2007), was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the liberalism of American political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy, as well as the men who surrounded Andrew Jackson. He served as Special Assistant to the President in John F. Kennedy's administration. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, … - Elliott Roosevelt
Elliott Roosevelt (September 23, 1910 - October 27, 1990), was a World War II hero and an author. He was also the son of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. - John Anderson
John Anderson (October 20, 1922 - August 7, 1992) was an American actor and director born in Clayton, Illinois. He was known for several roles, including his recurring role in "MacGyver" as Harry Jackson, the title character's grandfather. Earlier work included appearances on many Western series, including several episodes of "Gunsmoke" in various roles, and "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" as Virgil Earp. - James M. Cox
James Middleton Cox (March 31, 1870 - July 15, 1957) was a Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920. Cox was born in the tiny Butler County, Ohio village of Jacksonburg. Cox practiced a variety of trades throughout his life: high school teacher, reporter, owner and editor of several newspapers, and secretary to Congressman Paul J. Sorg. - Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon was a newspaperman and writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. He spun humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors and gangsters; few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead to be known as "Nathan Detroit", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", and so on. - Sumner Welles
Sumner Welles was Under Secretary of State in US (the #2 position) from 1937 to 1943, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. He was featured on the "Time" cover of August 11, 1941. He was born in New York City. - W. Averell Harriman
William Averell Harriman (November 15 1891 - July 26 1986) was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Truman and later as Governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1952, and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by President Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson. - Harold L. Ickes
Harold LeClair Ickes (March 15, 1874 - February 3, 1952) was a U.S. administrator and political figure. He served as Secretary of the Interior for thirteen years, from 1933 to 1946, and was known as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's point man for the New Deal. - Giuseppe Zangara
Giuseppe Zangara (September 7, 1900 - March 20, 1933) attempted to kill United States President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933. Zangara was born in Ferruzzano, Italy. After serving in the Tyrolian Alps in World War I, Zangara did a variety of menial jobs in his home town before emigrating with his uncle in Paterson, New Jersey, to the United States in 1923. On September 11, 1929, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. - Władysław Raczkiewicz
Władysław Raczkiewicz was a Polish political figure and the first president of the Polish government in exile from 1939 until his death in 1947. Until 1945 he was the internationally recognised Polish head of state, and the Polish Government in Exile recognised as the successsor to the Polish government of 1939. The son of a judge, he was born in Russia. He studied in St. Petersburg were he joined the Polish Youth Organization. - Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 - November 29, 1991) was a Tony Award-winning American actor with a career spanning 62 years. - Endicott Peabody
The Rev. Endicott Peabody (30 May 1857-20 January 1944) was the American Episcopal priest who founded Groton School for Boys (known today simply as Groton School), (in Groton, Massachusetts), in 1884. Peabody served as headmaster at Groton School from 1884 until 1940, and also served as a trustee at Lawrence Academy at Groton. Peabody was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's headmaster at Groton, and he officiated at FDR's marriage to Eleanor Roosevelt. - Kenneth S. Davis
Kenneth Sydney Davis (1912-1999) was a historian and university professor, most renowned for his series of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Davis also wrote biographies of Charles Lindbergh, Adlai Stevenson, and authored the first biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, entitled "Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier of Democracy". Davis was born in Salina, Kansas, and raised in Manhattan, Kansas. - Sidney Hillman
Sidney Hillman (March 23, 1887 - July 10, 1946) was an American labor leader. Head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, he was a key figure in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and in marshaling labor's support for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party. - William Dodd
William Edward Dodd (1869-February 9, 1940) was a historian who served as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's ambassador to Nazi Germany from 1933-1938. He was born in Clayton, N. C., and educated at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and at the University of Leipzig. As a student, he attended the University of Leipzig during the zenith of German liberalism. During the 1910s and 1920s, he was a professor of history at the University of Chicago. - Sara Roosevelt
Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt (September 21 1854 - September 7 1941) was the wife of James Roosevelt and the mother of President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her only child. - John Aspinwall Roosevelt
John Aspinwall Roosevelt (March 13 1916 - April 27 1981) was the 6th and last child of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. - Fred Korematsu
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was one of the many Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast during World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War to require all Japanese-Americans in "Military Area No. 1" (the West Coast "exclusion zone") to report to the Internment Camps. Fred Korematsu was born in 1919 to Japanese parents living in Oakland, … - Robert S. McElvaine
Robert S. McElvaine is Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where he has taught for thirty years. He is the author of nine books: *"Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man" (1983) *"The Great Depression: America, …
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