Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt facts

• A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party after 1932 as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and a total war
• His program for relief, recovery, and reform, known as the New Deal, involved a great expansion of the federal government's role in the economy
• As a dominant leader of the Democratic Party, he built the New Deal Coalition that brought together and united labor unions, big city machines, white ethnics, African Americans, and rural white Southerners in support of the party
• The Coalition significantly realigned American politics after 1932, creating the Fifth Party System and defining American liberalism throughout the middle third of the 20th century
• Roosevelt was born in 1882, to an old, prominent Dutch family from Dutchess County, New York
• He attended the elite educational institutions of Groton School and Harvard College
• At age 23 in 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt, with whom he had six children
• He entered politics in 1910, serving in the New York State Senate, and then as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson
• In 1920, Roosevelt ran for vice president with presidential candidate James M
• Cox, but the Cox/Roosevelt ticket lost to the Republican ticket of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge