ABSTRACT
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in 1882 and died just prior to the end of World War II on April 12 of 1945. He had been elected to the American presidency during the great depression in 1932. He was most well known for leading the U.S. out of the Depression and for working with the British allies as chief of state during WW II. He was re-elected in 1936, 1940, and 1944. FDR was eighteen years old when his father died, after having been severely ill for ten years, when FDR was between eight and eighteen. FDR’s mother, Sara, commandeered his entire life beginning at age eight. FDR and Eleanor’s five children were raised by Eleanor with constant oversight by Grandmother Sara. From the point of view of daily discipline and oversight, FDR hardly knew what ‘fathering’ was all about. Nevertheless, FDR remained a warm father, with limited involvement in the lives of his children.
