Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States
(March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945)
Nickname: "FDR"
Born: January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York
Died: April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia
Father: James Roosevelt
Mother: Sara Delano Roosevelt
Married: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), on March 17, 1905
Children: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1906-75); James Roosevelt (1907-91); Elliott Roosevelt (1910-90); Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.(1914-88); John Aspinwall Roosevelt (1916-81)
Religion: Episcopalian
Education: Graduated from Harvard College (1903); Attended Columbia Law School
Occupation: Public official, lawyer
Political Party: Democrat
Other Government Positions:
- Member of New York State Legislature, 1911-13
- Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20
- Governor of New York, 1929-33
Presidential Salary: $75,000/year
Vice President: John N. Garner (1933-41); Henry A. Wallace (1941-45); Harry S. Truman (1945)
Cabinet:
- Secretary of State
- Cordell Hull (1933-44)
- Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. (1944-45)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- William H. Woodin (1933-34)
- Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1934-45)
- Secretary of War
- George H. Dern (1933-36)
- Harry H. Woodring (1937-40)
- Henry L. Stimson (1940-45)
- Attorney General
- Homer S. Cummings (1933-39)
- Frank Murphy (1939-40)
- Robert H. Jackson (1940-41)
- Francis B. Biddle (1941-45)
- Postmaster General
- James A. Farley (1933-40)
- Frank C. Walker (1940-45)
- Secretary of the Navy
- Claude A. Swanson (1933-39)
- Charles Edison (1940)
- Frank Knox (1940-44)
- James V. Forrestal (1944-45)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Harold L. Ickes (1933-45)
- Secretary of Agriculture
- Henry A. Wallace (1933-40)
- Claude R. Wickard (1940-45)
- Secretary of Commerce
- Daniel C. Roper (1933-38)
- Harry L. Hopkins (1939-40)
- Jesse H. Jones (1940-45)
- Henry A. Wallace (1945)
- Secretary of Labor
- Frances Perkins (1933-1945)
- 1939-1945
- World War II