Franklin and Eleanor in Scotland 08/31/1905, from FDR Library 57647
FDR, Fala and Ruthie Bie at Hill Top Cottage in Hyde Park, N.Y. 1940. The better of two extant photos of FDR in a wheel chair-Photo by Margaret Suckley , from FDR Library 73113:61
1882 Jan. 30 - Franklin was born at the family home in Hyde Park in Dutchess County, NY, the only child of James and Sara Delano Roosevelt, raised pure patrician in aristocratic surroundings
1896 - entered Groton, one of the top 5 prep schools (St. Marks, St. Pauls, St. George, Middlesex)
1900 - entered Harvard, was bouyantly optimistic, adventurous, competitive, loved attention and company, but avoided commitment and intimacy
1904 - entered Columbia Law School, but no degree, passed bar exam 1907
1905 - married Eleanor, his 5th cousin, niece of TR, honeymooned in Europe, would raise 5 children: Anna 1906, James 1907, Elliott 1910, Jr. 1914, John 1916
1910 - won election to NY state Senate as a Democrat, was ambitious, gregarious
1913 - Assistant Secretary of Navy as reward for supporting Wilson in 1912, trip to Europe, affair with Lucy Mercer, letters discovered by Eleanor 1919
1920 - ran for Vice-President with James M. Cox, but lost to Harding and Coolidge
1921 - polio at Campobello Island
1928 - Governor of NY
1932 - 1st campaign defeated Herbert Hoover
1933 - 100 Days began the New Deal, Fireside Chats
1936 - 2nd campaign defeated Alf Landon
1940 - 3rd campaign defeated Wendell Willkie
1944 - 4th campaign defeated Thomas Dewey
1945 April 12 - died of stroke and buried April 15
