Franklin D Roosevelt Biography

Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York . He grew up here and in their summer house in Maine. His family was very wealthy. Franklin D. Roosevelt had private tutors until age 9 where he attended his first school in Germany. When he was 14 he was sent off to a prep school named Groton. He graduated from here in 1900 and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he went to college at Harvard and later to Columbia Law School. In his first year at Columbia, Roosevelt got B's, C's and D’s.

After two years, he passed the bar, dropped out of law school and got a job as a lawyer working at a law firm in New York City. However, he had no intention of remaining a lawyer for long. In 1907, he started thinking of how to become a president just like his cousin Theodore Roosevelt. His goal actually happened over the next 25 years of life. In 1910 he ran for State Senate. He spent less than 3 years as the Senate but then was offered a job working for Woodrow Wilson as the assistant Secretary of the Navy. In this job it made him more and more prepared for president. On March 17, 1905 Franklin married Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1916, however, he started having an affair for a younger lady named Lucy Mercer who Eleanor had recently hired as her social secretary. In 1918, Eleanor discovered …show more content…
Then after 3 years, he announced his running for president. While he was running, him and his team ran an incredibly well campaign. He was finally elected on March 4, 1933. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States of America. He was president from this time to April 12, 1945. He served for 12 years! Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12th in Warm Springs, Georgia where Lucy was by his side instead of Eleanor. Luby and Franklin started seeing each other back in 1941. They had continued their relationship until this time. Their relationship was never publicly announced and they kept it