New York’s Democratic Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week placed a whacking veto, resounding with such adjectives as “absurd,” “unjust,” “impracticable,” upon a prime ...

The last time a New York governor brought a removal proceeding against a sitting mayor was in 1932, when then-Gov. Franklin Roosevelt brought charges against the popular and flamboyant Mayor Jimmy ...

Before he was president, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1928 and 1930. Roosevelt was the cousin of former New York governor and President Theodore Roosevelt. In the nail ...

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 ...

In the 1932 presidential election, Democratic New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt unseated incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide in both the popular vote and the Electoral ...

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

The story of how President Franklin ... but haunted Roosevelt, the backslapping Kennedy, the driven Douglas, and Richard (Dick) Whitney, the embattled WASP president of the New York Stock Exchange ...

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 ...

Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American ... and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920. In 1928 Roosevelt became ...