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Franklin
Delano Roosevelt - 32nd President
Party: Democrat
Term: March 3, 1933 - April 12, 1945
Age at Inauguration: 51
Life Span: Jan 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945 [63]
Spouse: Eleanor Roosevelt - Age at
Marriage: 23
Vice President: John Garner - Henry Wallace - Harry
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- In 1933 an assassination attempt was
made on President-elect Roosevelt as he was about to speak at
a political rally in Miami
- Mayor Cermak of Chicago was shot and
killed in the attack. Assassination Attempts
- Franklin Roosevelt [FDR] was stricken
with polio at age thirty-nine, and the American public was unaware
of his disability throughout his nearly 13 years as President
- His wheel chair was specially designed
with no arms as to give the appearance of a regular chair
- Mr. Roosevelt was the fourth President
to die in office from natural causes. Presidential
Death in Office
- Elected to four terms, he served the
longest of any president
- After his presidency the Twenty-second
Amendment to the Constitution was ratified and now prohibits
any person from serving more than two terms as president
- Roosevelt was the first president
seen on television [NBC] when he spoke on April 30, 1939 at the
New York World's Fair Federal Building on the Exposition Grounds
- He was also the first president to
ride on a diesel train, October 23, 1937
- FDR appointed the first woman to a
presidential cabinet, Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, on
March 4, 1933
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