F. Roosevelt’s Extension of the Presidency Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in 1882 and sent his youth living in New York. At age 14, his parents sent him to an exclusive private boarding school in Massachusetts. With much more rigorous courses than he was use to and a focus on athletics, Roosevelt had a difficult. After graduating, he went on to study at Harvard College where he began excelling in various extracurricular activities, but not in his school grades. Here he also declared himself a Democrat, but supported the current Republic president, Theodore Roosevelt. At this time, he developed a relationship with his distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of the current president, and they married in 1905. A few months later, Roosevelt began law school at Columbia University, and, though he never graduated with the degree, he spent time working in a New York law firm. At the urging of fellow Democrats, Roosevelt entered politics in 1910. Although it …show more content…
Throughout his presidency, he used the newly developed radio to stay in contact with the public. In his “first hundred days” he worked with legislation to reform America’s economy. He vigorously followed through on his New Deal plan, working to pull America out of the Great Depression. The passing of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established laws for a minimum wage and maximum work hours a day that is still enforced today. The nation reelected Roosevelt for a third term in 1940 to guide them through the nation’s latest disaster. Tension was growing with Germany and Japan and in 1941, the United States was forced into World War II after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Franklin Roosevelt, along with the United Nations, fought and defeated the threat. This developed a new face for the United States as a very prominent and powerful