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- PBS - American Experience - Biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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- Brown University Library - Center For Digital Scholarship - “Roosevelt Corollary,” Theodore Roosevelt (1904)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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- The White House - Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Also known as: FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Died:
- April 12, 1945 (aged 63) Warm Springs Georgia
- Title / Office:
- presidency of the United States of America (1933-1945), United States governor (1929-1933), New York United States Senate (1911-1913), United States
- Founder:
- March of Dimes Foundation
- Political Affiliation:
- Democratic Party
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, in full Franklin Delano Roosevelt, byname FDR, (born January 30, 1882, Hyde Park, New York, U.S.—died April 12, 1945, Warm Springs, Georgia), 32nd president of the United States (1933–45). The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II. In so doing, he greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal, and he served as the principal architect of the successful effort to rid ...(100 of 5114 words)