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1 day ago · A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1 day ago · Franklin Delano Roosevelt (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.
2 days ago · As of 2023, Roosevelt was the sixth of seven presidential nominees to win a significant number of electoral votes in at least three elections, the others being Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, and Richard Nixon.
Jun 28, 2024 · No. 748 was the car that carried President Roosevelt, a bulletproof Packard car, and two Secret Service cars to Warm Springs, Georgia on Roosevelt’s final train trip before he died on April 12 ...
3 days ago · His running mate, chosen by leaders who disliked former vice president Henry A. Wallace for his extreme liberalism, was Sen. Harry S. Truman of Missouri, a party Democrat who had distinguished himself by investigating fraud and waste among war contractors.
Roosevelt saw it as crucial to turn Indians into individual Americans and not members of separate tribal nations. He called the General Allotment Act of 1887, which broke up reservations into individually held parcels of private property, a “mighty pulverizing engine to break up the tribal mass.”
Jun 28, 2024 · Drawing on the legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Roosevelt Institute champions new ideas and new leaders to make our economy and democracy work for the many, not the few.
