Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was, like T.R., the assistant secretary of the Navy and New York governor before winning the 1932 ...

Hundreds of people spent their Saturday at the Little White House in Warm Springs, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt spent much of his time. April 12, 2025, marked 80 years since the day he died ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born here in 1882 ... careful to never be seen in his wheelchair in public. He served as New ...

MPI / Getty Images As the first election returns reached his family estate in Hyde Park, New York, on a November night in 1936, Franklin Delano Roosevelt leaned back in his wheelchair, his ...

Herbert H. Lehman, who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt as Governor of New York, called at the White House along with the leaders of both Houses of the New York Legislature. Chief topic was the ...

On Wednesday, August 10, 1921, Franklin Roosevelt returns from a day of ... Convention and then supports Al Smith's run for governor of New York against her cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. She ...

The Washington banks have closed, the banks throughout the country are closing, and, in spite of the attempts of some papers to keep out of sight the news that New York and Illinois have finally ...

Roosevelt had assumed the role which ... of his Republican cousin Theodore, Franklin was elected Governor of New York in 1928 as a Democrat. In that position he garnered enough popularity within ...