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Franklin D. Roosevelt's Influence In Politics

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York. He attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick’s Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt. He entered public service through politics but as a Democrat. John Mack the Democratic District Attorney in New York came to FDR’s work office to get papers signed and offered FDR the chance to run for the Assembly Seat that was about to open. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic Nominee for Vice President in 1920. In 1921, when he was 39, he was diagnosed with Poliomyelitis. In 1928 he became Governor of New York. FDR’s biggest influence in politics was his 5th cousin, Teddy Roosevelt, who served as president from …show more content…

He wanted to open trade markets with other countries and started this with the Soviet Union and Latin America through the Good Neighbor Policy. For FDR’s economic policy he started the New Deal which was the first thing the Government went in with. The Government created 42 new agencies. FDR wanted to add higher taxes but, since the economy was so bad he knew the Government would have to go into debt. FDR’s domestic policy was about the same as his political ideology where he wanted to expand and create more jobs in order to put more money into the economy for people to spend and cause the business they spend it to make a higher profit. One of the biggest scandals FDR faced was when Republican leaders in congress caused FDR to face allegations after telling a story that he had left his dog, Fala, in the Aleutian Islands after a family getaway and at the taxpayers expense he supposedly sent a Navy destroyer back to rescue Fala. It didn’t have much of a political impact other than the fact that others were furious that he used taxpayers money, but, it was quickly proven that this scandal was a

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