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4 days ago · Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. The longest serving U.S. president, he is the only president to have served more than two terms.
4 days ago · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a radio broadcast in 1933, the year of a failed attempt on his life. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
3 days ago · Elected President. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Democratic. The 1936 United States presidential election was the 38th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas in a landslide.
4 days ago · Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T. R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
5 days ago · Roosevelt had broad democratic sympathies; moreover, thanks to his experience as police commissioner of New York City and governor of New York state, he was the first president to have an intimate knowledge of modern urban problems.
4 days ago · by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on July 17, 2024. In the nearly 250 years since its founding, the United States has witnessed its fair share of political violence, from four presidential assassinations to an 1856 caning on the Senate floor to a 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol that left at least five dead. Despite this history of bloodshed ...
Jul 13, 2024 · FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, the 32nd president. ... D.C., and walking to his motorcade when he was shot by John Hinckley Jr., who was in the crowd. Reagan recovered from the March 1981 shooting. Three ...
