Monument Monday – The FDR Memorial
America’s 32nd and only 4 term President (1933-45), Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation out of the Great Depression and through most of World War II.
Growing up in upstate New York, FDR won a seat on the New York State Senate and later was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913.
In 1920, he ran for Vice President with Ohio Governor and Presidential hopeful James Cox, but was crushed by Republican Warren Harding.
The following year, while on vacation he became ill from polio, resulting in permanent paralysis from the waist down, leaving him almost incapable …read more
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