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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (August 17, 1914 – August 17, 1988) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman. He served as a United States congressman from New York from 1949 to 1955 and in 1963 was appointed United States Under Secretary of Commerce by President John F. Kennedy.
Harry S. Truman takes the oath of office after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on Thursday, April 12, 1945, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Standing beside him are his wife Bess and ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms.
Following her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt pressed the United States to join and support the United Nations and became its first delegate to the committee on Human Rights. She served as the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights and oversaw the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights .
Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York, rose to global political prominence with the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), whose wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was Theodore's niece.
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But a new photo making the rounds is catapulting a past politician into the spotlight: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor ...
Initially the young couple moved to Leesburg, Virginia, but visited Fort Worth often. Their first daughter, Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, was born in Fort Worth on May 9, 1934.