FDR
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president during the Great Depression. He was a good president to be a head of the country in this time for the US. He gave them hope and had the famous quote "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
He was born in 1882, went to Harvard and married a distant cousin of his, Eleanor Roosevelt on St. Pattys day in 1905.
Theodore Roosevelt was a distant relative of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Franklin admired Theodore.
In 1921 when he was 39 he was stricken with poliomyelitis. He showed his strength and wilpower through reconvering and gaining back the use of his legs with this desease.
in 1928 he became govoner of New York.
in 1932 he was elected president of the US and it would be his first of four terms.
He was the creater of the New Deal program.
In 1935 the country was making some recovery so busniness men and bankers were turning more against the New Deal program.
Accomplishments:
knew what to do when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor
Created the New Deal Programs
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