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Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945
The scion of an established family in New York's Hudson Valley, Franklin Roosevelt graduated from Harvard University and attended Columbia Law School. By 1905 he had married his distant cousin, Eleanor, and was practicing law in New York City without much enthusiasm. Drawn to politics, he was fascinated by the example of his famous fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, whom Franklin declared to be "the greatest man I ever knew." In 1910, Democratic Party leaders in Dutchess County urged him to run for the state senate. A split in the Republican Party, along with Roosevelt's energetic campaign, gave him an unexpected victory. By 1912 -- when this photograph was taken -- he had enlisted as his adviser the politically savvy journalist Louis Howe, who would guide Roosevelt's political career for the next twenty years.
Underwood & Underwood, 1912 |