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1. Eleanor Roosevelt -- Franklin Roosevelt
   The Atlantic's 100 Most Influential Americans List begins in ranking order with Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and John Marshall. Every panelist cast a vote for these seven figures, proving that a political career was the surest way to a historical legacy.
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Franklin Roosevelt
   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.
3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
   A Memorial honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be built on the National Mall, situated adjacent to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and in a direct line between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. Congress passed Joint Resolutions in 1996 authorizing Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. to establish a Memorial honoring Dr. King to be built in Washington, DC. The Ceremonial Groundbreaking took place on November 13, 2006 and the Memorial is scheduled to be completed in 2009. McKissack & McKissack / Turner Construction Company/ Gilford Corporation / Tompkins Builders, Inc. Joint Venture will serve as the Design-Build team. For more information about the Memorial Foundation, please visit http://www.buildthedream.org.
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
   Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president of the United States from 1933 to 1945, the years of the Great Depression and World War II. Under FDR's leadership in the most difficult of times, the Unitd States became the most powerful national in history. The carefully selected photographs and meticulously researched life in these pages combine to tell the life of an extraordinary man and of an era that was perhaps the most momentous in American history. Many of the programmed and policies instituted by Roosevelt during his twelve yeras in office affect the quality of American life even today. controversial in his own time, his views are still the subject of heated debate. A majority of Americans loved Roosevelt: a sizeable minority hated him.
5. Franklin D. Roosevelt -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt
   Franklin D. Roosevelt was a life-long Socialist politician, despite being a relative of staunch Democrat President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. He lost use of his legs when he contracted poliomyelitis. If not for this, some speculated, Roosevelt might have become president himself. Nonetheless, he served as Secretary of War from 1933-1937, and as Assistant Secretary of War from 1937-1945. He oversaw the project to build a superbomb as well as intelligence on other countries' own superbomb projects during the Second Great War.
6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Presidents
   Franklin D. Roosevelt was a dashing, stylish charmer. He was the first President to appear on television. As the result of contracting polio in 1921, he required braces and crutches to walk. He ... used a wheelchair.
7. Eleanor Roosevelt -- Franklin Delano
   Eleanor Roosevelt was a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party and the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President. Her parents died during her childhood, and she was raised by her grandmother and educated in England. In 1905 she married her fifth cousin (once removed) Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At her wedding she was given away by her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt.
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt
   Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 (New York, 1979), the only complete account of Roosevelt's foreign policies, is an unusually thorough and intelligent work. John Morton Blum, From the Morgenthau Diaries, 3 vols. (Boston, 1959–1967), a meticulous history of the Roosevelt years from the perspective of the Treasury Department, is particularly informative about foreign economic policy.
9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- War
   October 8, 1941: Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders US vessels to fire upon German vessels on sight. Roosevelt blatantly lied to Congress and the American public on numerous occasions to try and get them to declare war on Germany.
10. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    On August 10, 1921, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was on vacation with his family at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada. Following an active day of swimming and sailing Franklin became ill and had problems moving his legs. Weeks later he was diagnosed with the polio virus. The disease only affects certain muscles, not organs, so he was fully functional except for his paralyzed legs.

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