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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 134. Chapters: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, List of Governors of New York, DeWitt Clinton, Charles Evans Hughes, Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York, Samuel J. Tilden, William H. Seward, George Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins, Levi P. Morton, Al Smith, David Paterson, Nelson Rockefeller, Eliot Spitzer, John Jay, George Pataki, Andrew Cuomo, William Averell Harriman, Charles Poletti, Horatio Seymour, Mario Cuomo, Governorship of George Pataki, Herbert H. Lehman, Hamilton Fish, John Adams Dix, Hugh Carey, William Sulzer, Malcolm Wilson, William L. Marcy, John Thompson Hoffman, Enos T. Throop, Edwin D. Morgan, Nathan Lewis Miller, Martin H. Glynn, Washington Hunt, Charles S. Whitman, John Tayler, Silas Wright, Reuben Fenton, Lucius Robinson, Alonzo B. Cornell, David B. Hill, Morgan Lewis, Roswell P. Flower, Joseph C. Yates, Horace White, William C. Bouck, List of colonial governors of New York, Frank Swett Black, Nathaniel Pitcher, John Young, Myron H. Clark, John Alden Dix, Frank W. Higgins, John Alsop King, Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr.. Excerpt: Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( -z -v lt; January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. The only American president elected to more than two terms, he forged a durable coalition that realigned American politics for decades. FDR defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in November 1932, at the depths of the Great Depression. FDR's combination of optimism and activism contributed to reviving the national spirit. Working closely with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in leading the Allies against Germany and Japan in Worl...
