When you think of a significant American, who would you choose? I would choose Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Serving longer than any other American President and assuming Presidency during the Great Depression, he provided American with hope and promised swift action. Roosevelt leads one of the most interesting and magnificent life, of anyone I have ever studied about.
Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York his parents, Sara and James Roosevelt sent him to Groton School, one of the best at preparing boys for Ivy League colleges. (2) Roosevelt graduated from Groton in 1900 and went on to Harvard University where he graduated with an arts degree. (1) Roosevelt left for New York and attended Columbia Law School. (2) Roosevelt did not graduate Columbia Law School when he left to join the practice of Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn, a prominent law firm. (3) Before leaving Columbia Law School, he married his distant cousin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. (2) Together they had a total of six children:......
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