Hi everybody, today my mommy is going to talk about Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Thank you, Noah, for introducing Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States.

After three consecutive Republican presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt beat incumbent Herbert Hoover in dominating fashion,

472 electoral votes to just 59 for Hoover in the election of 1932.

The last Democrat to serve in the White House, Woodrow Wilson, had to navigate the country

through the crisis of the First World War. When Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House for

his first term in 1933, he knew that he would have to find a solution for the ongoing Great Depression, but he had no

idea that he would have to govern the country during a second World War. You may recognize

Franklin Roosevelt's last name because we already covered another president by the name of

Theodore Roosevelt, who was related to Franklin

Roosevelt. Their ancestors came to the United States from Holland in the 1640s. After immigrating

to the United States, Nicholas Roosevelt had two sons by the names of Johannes and Jacobus.

The family line of Johannes included the 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

The family line of Jacobus would eventually lead to the 32nd President Franklin Roosevelt.

That makes the two presidents fifth cousins. Are you confused

yet? If not, let me add that Franklin Roosevelt would marry Eleanor Roosevelt. That wasn't just

her married name, but also her maiden name because she was Theodore Roosevelt's niece. That means that Franklin

Roosevelt married his fifth cousin once removed, Eleanor, in the year 1905. In 1921, at the age of 39,

Franklin Roosevelt was stricken with polio, which prevented him from

walking without the assistance of leg braces and a cane for the rest of his life.

Miraculously, the public didn't discover how severe his condition was for many years.

Franklin Roosevelt served as governor of New York State from the years 1929 to 1933.

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