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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (abbreviated as FDR) is the 32nd president of the US. He served from 1933 to 1945. Franklin was born in 1882 to a wealthy family in Hyde Park. He attended Harvard and Columbia University, then became a secretary in the US Navy. Franklin entered politics at the age of 28. He started hanging out with his distant cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1904, he revealed to his mother that they were in love. Since Eleanor’s father died, her Uncle Theodore gave the bride away in 1905. In 1920, he was nominated for Vice President of the US, but lost that election. A bigger challenge headed toward Roosevelt. He got paralyzed from the waist down. Though he needed a wheelchair for the rest of his lifetime, he fought

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