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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    President of the United States from 1933 to 1945

    "FDR" redirects here. For other uses, see FDR (disambiguation) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (disambiguation).

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Official campaign portrait, 1944

    In office
    March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945
    Vice President
    Preceded byHerbert Hoover
    Succeeded byHarry S. Truman
    In office
    January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932
    LieutenantHerbert H. Lehman
    Preceded byAl Smith
    Succeeded byHerbert H. Lehman
    In office
    March 17, 1913 – August 26, 1920
    PresidentWoodrow Wilson
    Preceded byBeekman Winthrop
    Succeeded byGordon Woodbury
    In office
    January 1, 1911 – March 17, 1913
    Preceded byJohn F. Schlosser
    Succeeded byJames E. Towner
    Born

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt


    (1882-01-30)January 30, 1882
    Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
    DiedApril 12, 1945(1945-04-12) (aged 63)
    Warm Springs, Georgia, U.S.
    Resting placeSpringwood Estate
    Political partyDemocratic
    Spouse
    Children6, including Anna,

    Abraham Lincoln

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    Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. His family moved to Indiana when he was seven and he grew up on the edge of the frontier. He had very little formal education, but read voraciously when not working on his father’s farm.  A childhood friend later recalled Lincoln's "manic" intellect, and the sight of him red-eyed and tousle-haired as he pored over books late into the night.  In 1828, at the age of nineteen, he accompanied a produce-laden flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana—his first visit to a large city--and then walked back home.  Two years later, trying to avoid health and finance troubles, Lincoln's father moved the family moved to Illinois.

    After moving away from home, Lincoln co-owned a general store for several years before selling his stake and enlisting as a militia captain defending Illinois in the Black Hawk War of 1832.  Black Hawk, a Sauk chief, believed he had been swindled by

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