Years |
Age |
Events |
1882 |
0 |
Born in Hyde Park, New York |
1896-1900 |
14 |
Attended Groton School |
1900-1903 |
18 |
Attended Harvard University, graduated with a BA in history |
1903-1905 |
21 |
Attended Columbia Law School, left without a degree |
1905 |
23 |
Married Eleanor Roosevelt |
1906 |
24 |
Daughter Anna born |
1907 |
25 |
Son James born |
1909 |
27 |
Son Franklin Jr. born and died in infancy |
1910 |
28 |
Elected to New York State Senate |
1912 |
30 |
Reelected to New York State Senate |
1913-1920 |
31 |
Assistant Secretary of the Navy |
1914 |
32 |
Son Franklin Jr. born |
1916 |
34 |
Son John born |
1920 |
38 |
Democratic vice-presidential candidate, defeated |
1921 |
39 |
Stricken with polio |
1922 |
40 |
Established the Warm Springs Foundation |
1924 |
42 |
Nominated for Vice President but withdrew |
1928 |
46 |
Elected Governor of New York |
1930 |
48 |
Reelected Governor of New York |
1932 |
50 |
Elected President of the United States |
1933 |
51 |
Inaugurated as President, launches New Deal with bank holiday, CCC, PWA, NRA |
1934 |
52 |
Securities and Exchange Act, Federal Communications Commission established |
1935 |
53 |
Social Security Act, Wagner Act, Works Progress Administration |
1936 |
54 |
Reelected President in a landslide |
1937 |
55 |
Attempts to pack the Supreme Court, recession begins |
1938 |
56 |
Fair Labor Standards Act passed |
1939 |
57 |
World War II begins, Neutrality Act |
1940 |
58 |
Reelected for third term, destroyers for bases deal with Britain |
1941 |
59 |
Lend-Lease Act, Pearl Harbor attack, US enters World War II |
1942 |
60 |
Mobilization for war, Battle of Midway |
1943 |
61 |
Casablanca Conference |
1944 |
62 |
Reelected for fourth term, D-Day |
1945 |
63 |
Yalta Conference, dies in Warm Springs, Georgia |