Batting!

"I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average."

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the thirty-second President of the United States (March 4, 1933-April 12, 1945) and the first president to serve more than two terms. He was born at Hyde Park, New York, on 30 January 1882 and died while he was at Warm Springs in Georgia on 12 April 1945. He was preceded by Herbert Hoover and succeeded by Harry S. Truman.

Franklin D. Roosevelt attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. He married his distant cousin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1905. He followed his fifth cousin President Theodore Roosevelt to enter public service through politics, but as a Democrat.

Franklin Roosevelt won the election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he became the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920.

He struggled against polio that was stricken him in the summer of 1921 when he was 39.

He nominated Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior" at the Democratic Convention on 1924. He became Governor of New York in 1928.

Franklin Roosevelt was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms, and he was re-elected in 19356 by a top-heavy margin. He created the New Deal during the Great Depression of the 1930s to provide relief for the unemployed, the same as recovery of the economy, and reform of the economic system. He built the New Deal Coalition that dominated politics into the 1960s.

Franklin Roosevelt confronted re-armament and led the USA away from isolation after 1938, when the world was at the break of World War 11. He provided extensive support to Winston Churchill, before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He provided decisive leadership against the Nazi in Germany and the USA became the principal arms supplier and financier of the Allies to defeat Germany, Italy and Japan. As the Allies neared victory, Franklin Roosevelt played a critical role in shaping the post-war world, particularly through Yalta Conference and the creation of the United Nations.

Read Eleanor Roosevelt's quotes and insights and her bio at- Quotes and Insights