Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)is the only president to have served for 12 years (3 terms) as well as the only president confined to a wheelchair.
Roosevelt's first job was as an apprentice lawyer with the Wall Street firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn.
He was later elected New York Senator from Dutchess, Columbia and Putnam counties on 1910 and was re-elected for a second term in 1912, which he only served for a few months due to President Woodrow Wilson appointing him Assistant Secretarty of the Navy in 1913. In 1920, the Democratic party elected FDR as Vice President, he and president nominee James M. Cox were defeated by Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Later in 1928, he was elected governor of New York and again in 1930, running for two two-year terms. During World War II, Roosevelt served as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces.
On August 10, 1921, FDR developed acute symptoms of poliomyelitis while visiting his summer home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada when he was thirty-nine years old. This caused him to loose the ability to walk without assistance. He had to be in the use of a cane, crutches or be held up by his son or something or someone else.
The Good Neighbor Policy was the common name for FDR's foreign policy concerning Latin America. Under this policy, America pledged that it would treat Latin American countries with respect and would not intervene in their foreign and domestic affairs.
Roosevelt's first job was as an apprentice lawyer with the Wall Street firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn.
He was later elected New York Senator from Dutchess, Columbia and Putnam counties on 1910 and was re-elected for a second term in 1912, which he only served for a few months due to President Woodrow Wilson appointing him Assistant Secretarty of the Navy in 1913. In 1920, the Democratic party elected FDR as Vice President, he and president nominee James M. Cox were defeated by Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Later in 1928, he was elected governor of New York and again in 1930, running for two two-year terms. During World War II, Roosevelt served as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces.
On August 10, 1921, FDR developed acute symptoms of poliomyelitis while visiting his summer home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada when he was thirty-nine years old. This caused him to loose the ability to walk without assistance. He had to be in the use of a cane, crutches or be held up by his son or something or someone else.
The Good Neighbor Policy was the common name for FDR's foreign policy concerning Latin America. Under this policy, America pledged that it would treat Latin American countries with respect and would not intervene in their foreign and domestic affairs.