Kennedy Lyndon B. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Help inform the discussion Support the Miller Center. University of Virginia Miller Center. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Impact and Legacy. Breadcrumb U. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. William E. More Resources Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency Page. Roosevelt Essays Life in Brief. Life Before the Presidency. Harron, California: First woman member of U. Court of Tax Appeals. Carrick H. Jewell W. Swofford, Missouri: First woman member of U.
Employees' Compensation Commission. Served as U. Delegate to U. Conference of Food and Agriculture. What was the Good Neighbor Policy? Under the new policy, the United States pledged that it would treat Latin American nations with respect and avoid intervening in their foreign and domestic affairs. The goal of the policy was to strengthen the United States economy by increasing trade with Latin America. A necessary prerequisite to increased trade was the improvement of political relations with those countries and the assurance that the United States would no longer interfere in the affairs of its neighbors.
As a by-product of the policy, all Latin American countries eventually joined the United States in the war against the Axis Powers. Even as the United States was moving closer to war, FDR began to formulate his ideas for a post-war world. FDR suggested the name "United Nations" for the group, and in October he sent representatives to Moscow to begin preliminary discussions with their counterparts from the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and China about the structure of a world political organization.
The leaders also agreed to call a conference in San Francisco, California on April 25, to prepare a Charter for the new organization. Despite this loss, the San Francisco Conference reached final agreement, and delegates from fifty nations signed the Charter on June 26, On October 24, the Big Five plus one-half of the other nations had ratified the Charter, and the United Nations was officially born.
Was there ever an assassination attempt on FDR? However, after the presidential election of , and before the inauguration in March , FDR nearly lost his life to an assassin's bullet. Joseph Zangara, a thirty-three year old disillusioned Italian immigrant jumped onto a park bench and fired four shots towards FDR's car.
FDR was not hit, but Mayor Cermak was wounded mortally and died a few weeks later. The public and press hailed FDR's courage in refusing to allow his driver to leave the scene before first attending to the wounded Mayor Cermak and driving him to the hospital.
Zangara later stated that he did not hate FDR personally, but rather he hated all government officials and all rich people no matter from which country they came. In , he entered politics, winning a state senate seat as a Democrat in the heavily Republican Dutchess County. He would hold that post for the next seven years, traveling to Europe in to tour naval bases and battlefields after the U. In , Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio when he was 39 years old.
By the spring of , he was able to stand again with braces. He ended up purchasing the resort and turning it into a rehabilitation center for Polio patients. With the support of his wife and his longtime supporter, the journalist Louis Howe, Roosevelt began to return to public life, issuing statements on issues of the day and keeping up a correspondence with Democratic leaders.
Smith for president though Smith lost the nomination and the Democrats lost the general election. Smith lost to Herbert Hoover , but Roosevelt won. Governor Roosevelt grew more liberal in his policies as New York and the nation sank deeper into economic depression after the stock market crash of Re-elected as governor in , Roosevelt emerged as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination two years later.
In addition, Democrats won sizeable majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. By the time Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 4, , the Depression had reached desperate levels, including 13 million unemployed.
Roosevelt began the momentous first days of his presidency by closing all banks for several days until Congress could pass reform legislation. He also began holding open press conferences and giving regular national radio addresses in which he spoke directly to the American people.
After passage of the Emergency Banking Relief Act, three out of every four banks were open within a week.
Controversial but extremely popular with voters, Roosevelt won re-election by a huge margin in over Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas. He faced opposition from the Supreme Court over his New Deal programs, and proposed an expansion of the court that would allow him to appoint one new justice for every sitting justice 70 or older. Republicans gained ground in the midterm congressional elections, however, and soon formed an alliance with conservative Democrats that would block further reform legislation.
Click here to follow election results! Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. He served from until his death on April 12, He was 63 when he died. Roosevelt was the only U. Roosevelt was a member of the Democratic Party. His vice presidents were John N.
Garner , Henry A. Wallace , and Harry S. Truman , who succeeded him upon his death. During his presidency, Roosevelt instituted the New Deal, a domestic program that was created to bring economic relief to people suffering from the Great Depression. Prior to serving as president, Roosevelt worked as a lawyer and served in the New York State Senate , as the assistant secretary of the Navy, and as the governor of New York.
Below is an abbreviated outline of Roosevelt's professional and political career: [1]. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in history in After Harvard, he studied law at Columbia University but dropped out after he passed the state bar in Roosevelt held the position during the whole of World War I and helped to implement Navy policies. He served in that position until In , Roosevelt ran for vice-president on the Democratic ticket headed by James M.
Cox but lost to Republican Warren Harding. After the loss, Roosevelt left politics and returned to private life. In , while on vacation at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Roosevelt contracted polio and lost the use of his legs.
Smith for president at the Democratic convention. That year, Smith lost the nomination to John W. Davis but Smith secured the nomination four years later.
0コメント