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FDR was born in Hyde Park, New York, on January 30^th, 1882. In 1903 Franklin graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in history. In 1905 Franklin married his “long lost cousin” as he called her Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1910 FDR ran for state senate and won. Eventually in 1913 Franklin left his position as senate and became assistant secretary of the navy. In 1919 FDR went to France formally ending world war one. In 1921 FDR was contracted with polio. Three years later Franklin read an article about warm springs Georgia. It said there waters were healing. Franklin went the very next day he then found a way to strengthen his legs… SWIMMING! He found he could float so the next year Franklin bought warm springs Georgia and turned it in to a place to study polio. In1932 FDR was elected president of the United States of America as our 32^nd president in 1936 he served his second term and in 1940 served his third term then one year later asked congress to declare war on Japan in 1944 little did Franklin know this was not a full term. Franklin died a year later at warm springs Georgia on April 12^th, 1945.less than a month later Truman gave orders to drop two atomic bombs on two cities in Japan Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Now you see why FDR was so interesting.