When Franklin D. Roosevelt was five years old, he visited the white house with his family and met president Grover Cleveland. He is the cousin of Theodore Roosevelt. In 1907 he passed the bar exam. In 1913 he was made secretary of the Navy. He was elected governor from 1929-1933. In 1932 he won the democratic nomination to be the president with john garner for vice president.
In the second election for Roosevelt, he and garner rolled another win over Alf Landon. This made him president again starting at 1936. He won the electoral votes 523- 8. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt didn’t ask to be re-nominated for presidency again but when his name went into the poll, everybody wanted it. Roosevelt won his third election with 449 out of 531 electoral votes.
Roosevelt won yet another presidential election in 1944 making it his fourth. This time his vice president was Harry S. Truman instead of Thomas Dewey. They won with 53% of popular vote and 432 electoral votes. One big accomplishment for FDR was having the allies win World War II, even though he died before it ended.
In the first hundred days that Roosevelt was in office, he passed 15 Major laws.
A couple of these laws were the Civilian Conservation Corps, Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Social Security Act. The Civilian Conservation Corps or (CCC) hired more than 3,000,000 people to work on different projects. The Tennessee Valley Authority or (TVA) used Tennessee River to provide electricity to the depressed area. The Social Security Act created the social security system.
Sources:
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/franklinroosevelt/p/pfdroosevelt.htm
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FDR i mean
Shoot! ha i dont know why i was thinking it was JFK.. my bad!
FDR was not one of the presidents you were supposed to do. Were you supposed to do JFK(Kennedy)?