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In "The Time 100 - the Most Important People of the Century," Franklin Delano Roosevelt is ranked the runner-up most important person of the century - second only to Albert Einstein. Roosevelt is a giant of world history.
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Figure 1.--Franklin Roosevelt is pictured here at about 5 years of age in 1887 with his father. He is wearing a Highland kilt despite the fact that the Rosevelt's were a Dutch family. Franklin reportedly did not like his kilts. He wears bangs, but his curls have been cut. Click on the image to see Franklin with his rather young-looking mother on the same day.
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While at Harvard, Franklin fell in love with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, his fifth cousin once removed. Eleanor had had a trying childhood. Her mother, a beautiful socialite who gave her little affection, died when Eleanor was eight. Her father, Theodore Roosevelt's brother, was spirited and charming. But he was unstable and alcoholic, and he died when Eleanor was ten. Orphaned, she lived with her maternal grandmother and entered her teens feeling rejected, ugly, and ill at ease in society. When Franklin, a dashing Harvard man two years her senior, paid her attention, she was flattered and receptive.
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The following year Roosevelt was struck by personal tragedy. Suffering one evening from a chill after being in icy water, he went to bed and awoke in pain to find his legs would not support him. He was paralysed from the chest downwards, the victim — at the age of 39 — of infantile paralysis. Recovery was initially slow but Roosevelt fought to regain some degree of independence and to rebuild his life. The effect of the illness was to galvanize him, to give him a determination that was previously lacking in his somewhat pampered existence. He learned to walk a few steps with the aid of leg braces.
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Roosevelt had affairs outside his marriage, including one with Eleanor's social secretary Lucy Mercer, with whom Roosevelt began an affair soon after she was hired in early 1914. In September 1918, Eleanor found letters revealing the affair in Roosevelt's luggage. Eleanor confronted him with the letters and demanded a divorce. They reconciled after a fashion with the informal mediation of Roosevelt's adviser Louis Howe,[6] but Eleanor established a separate house in Hyde Park at Valkill. Their marriage has been labeled a "marriage of convenience."[7]
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In 1936 Roosevelt was re-elected. It was a landslide * ! He received 523 electoral votes and Alf (Alfred) Landon only received 8. Roosevelt won in every state except Maine and Vermont.
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