Franklin D. Roosevelt was born at Hyde Park in New York city on January 30 1882. He went on to become one of the greatest strategic and motivational presidents this nation has ever seen. Roosevelt had a great deal of accomplishment throughout his lifetime even through all the hardships he had to overcome. His father died while he was studying at Harvard. This came as a great disappointment to Roosevelt but he overcame it with his positive outlook on life and his will to push on. After his fathers death he continued his forge to become one of the greatest presidents ever, but he ran into other obstacles along the way. A few years later he was vacationing at the Campobello islands to get away when he was stricken with polio. He spent much of the next seven years trying to recover the use of his legs. With all the chaos in his life he was still known as a very humorous and outgoing person.
Roosevelt first became interested in politics while he was working as a junior clerk in the law firm
The war became Roosevelt’s new passion and focus for his country. Some publishers even wrote that his name went from MR. New Deal to MR. Win the War, but Roosevelt wanted to keep his country out of the war as long as he possibly could, even though it seemed like the world around us was in total chaos. It wasn’t until the empire of Japan maliciously raided and attacked the United States that president Roosevelt felt we had to retaliate. Immediately following the Japanese attack on December 7th 1941 president Roosevelt asked the congress to declare a state of war.
of Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn. He was elected to the New York state senate in 1910 this was the start of his political career. After getting a seat in the senate he decided to pursue his career in politics and president Woodrow Wilson appointed him assistant secretary of the navy. Roosevelt took much pride in this job, but he was devastated when he lost his seat in the senate to James W Gerard just a year later. After his
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