Essay Archive - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt, thirty-second President of the United Sates,
greatly expanded the role of the federal government with a wide-ranging
economic and social program, the New Deal, designed to counter the Great
Depression of the 1930s. He also led the nation through most of its
participation in the global struggle of World War II.
Roosevelt attended a high-class high school and later graduated
from Harvard in 1903. He quickly gained recognition by his leadership of
upstate New York Democrats in a fight against Tammany Hall's nominee for
the U.S. Senate. At the 1912 De....
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