Presidents have been marking their first 100 days since Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933. Since then, they have tried to use their first 100 days to set the tone for the rest of their ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Most people know that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only U.S. President who served more than two terms. And that he was in office for most of the Great Depression—and later, World War II.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his inauguration in 1933. He is being sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Hughes. (Getty) When the first Supreme Court of the United States was created by the ...