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Article: Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
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ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882
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1945), known as F.D.R., was the thirty-second president of the United States. He was the only president elected to four consecutive terms of office. According to polls of historians and political scientists, F.D.R. is consistently ranked with George Washington (1789
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1797) and Abraham Lincoln (1861
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1865) as one of the United States' three greatest presidents.
Roosevelt's politics in fighting both the Great Depression (1929
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1939) and World War II (1939
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1945) was always realistic: he stood for humanity and against rigid ideology. Roosevelt seemed to work against the abstract ideologies of fascism, ...