Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in New York in 1882.
He attended Harvard University and Colombia Law School.
In 1910, FDR was elected senator of New York, and he became its governor in the year of 1928.
FDR was elected President of the United States in November of 1932, at the beginning of the great depression.
During his first term as president, Roosevelt created the New Deal, a program designed to bring economic stability and high employment back to the United States.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was re-elected as president three more times during the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of WWII.
FDR died of a stroke on April 12, 1945, near the end of WWII.