Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) was the 32nd President of the United States, serving a total of four terms as president from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Roosevelt won the presidency during the heart of the Great Depression under a platform of immediate relief for the nation's poorest. He instigated The New Deal, a series of policies aimed at stimulating the U.S. economy after the stock market crash of 1929. He was also instrumental in the repeal of Prohibition one month after he was inaugurated.

In 1921, Roosevelt became ill and paralyzed from the waist down. Believing the disease to be polio, he co-founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, with the intention of finding a cure. Today, the organization is called the March of Dimes and promotes pre-natal and infant health. A 2003 study concluded that Roosevelt likely had Guillain-Barre syndrome, not polio.

• January 30, 1882: Born

• 1904: Graduated from Harvard University

• 1905: Marries Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

• 1913: Appointed Assistant Secretary of The Navy under Woodrow Wilson

• 1921: Stricken with Polio

• 1928: Elected as Governor of New York

• 1932: Elected as the 32nd President of the United States

• March 5th 1933: Begins First 100 Days of the New Deal

• 1933: Adolph Hitler becomes German Chancellor

• 1934: SEC and FCC Created

• 1935: Works Progress and Social Security Administrations formed

• 1936: FDR Elected to Second Term as President

• 1937: FDR began court packing plan - Japan invades China

• 1939: Germany Invades Poland

• 1940: Elected to Unprecedented Third Term as President

• 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor - US Declares War on Japan

• 1944: Battle of Normandy - FDR Elected to Fourth Term as President

• April 12, 1945: Dies of Cerebral Hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia

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