Franklin D. Roosevelt, full title Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States. Roosevelt, the only president to be voted 4 times, led the U.S. through 2 of the twentieth century's biggest crises: the Great Depression and World War II. Doing so, he dramatically enlarged the national administration's capabilities via a range of initiatives called the New Deal, and he was a key architect of the strong run to clear the globe of German National Socialism and Japanese militarism.

Inspired by his cousin Theodore, who maintained to encourage youths from affluent families to pursue government service, Roosevelt sought a chance to begin a political career. That chance came in 1910, when Democratic Party officials in Dutchess County, New York, urged him to run for a position in the state legislature. Roosevelt, whose household had always supported Democratic, just paused long enough to ensure that his prominent Republican Party cousin would not testify against him. He actively campaigned and gained the election.

When he decided to take his seat in Albany at the age of 29, he garnered considerable nationwide and even media exposure by leading a small group of Democratic armed groups who refused to support Billy Sheehan, the candidate for United States Senate affirmed by Tammany Hall, New York City's Democratic institution. For 3 months, Roosevelt assisted in keeping the rebels at bay, forcing Tammany to move to another nominee.

Roosevelt understood much about the give-and-take of elections in the New York Senate, and he progressively shed his noble airs and sense of superiority. In the meantime, he grew to advocate the entire radical reform program. By 1911, Roosevelt had backed socialist New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912. Roosevelt was re-elected to the state senate that year, although about of typhoid disease that kept him from promoting major engagements throughout the elections. His achievement was aided in part by the attention produced by Louis McHenry Howe, an Albany writer. Howe recognized a statesman with immense potential in the tall, attractive Roosevelt, and he stayed devoted to Roosevelt for his entire life.