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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.
March 17 - President Roosevelt holds a press conference in which he speaks against a congressional movement to abolish the 40 hour work week. [105] Roosevelt also states his intent to ask Congress the following day for an increase of seventeen and a half billion toward army warplanes. [106]
1941 - In Washington, DC, the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1950 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium". 1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his presidency. [1] In total Roosevelt appointed 194 Article III federal judges, more than twice as many as the previous record of 82 appointed by Calvin Coolidge.
When the special session of Congress that had been called by Roosevelt opened on March 9, Congress quickly passed Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act. Rather than nationalizing the financial industry, as some radicals hoped and many conservatives feared, the bill used federal assistance to stabilize privately owned banks. [17]
Franklin D. Roosevelt: March 17, 1913 August 26, 1920 Woodrow Wilson: Josephus Daniels: Gordon Woodbury: August 27, 1920 March 9, 1921 Theodore Roosevelt Jr. March 10, 1921 September 30, 1924 Warren Harding: Edwin Denby: Theodore Douglas Robinson: November 11, 1924 March 4, 1929 Calvin Coolidge: Curtis Dwight Wilbur: Ernest L. Jahncke: April 1 ...
He served in the position from March 17, 1933, until his death on February 22, 1936. He became the fourth Roosevelt and fifth member of the Roosevelt family to occupy that office, after Theodore Roosevelt, [4] Franklin D. Roosevelt (the current president at the time), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Theodore Douglas Robinson.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano. His parents, who were sixth cousins, [ 3 ] came from wealthy, established New York families—the Roosevelts , the Aspinwalls and the Delanos , respectively—and resided at Springwood , a large ...