Franklin Roosevelt was born on 30 January 1882 in Hyde Park, in the Hudson Valley just over 100 miles north of New York City. His mother Sara was 28 years old. He was her only child. His father James was 54 years old. He was his second son. He was a widower from his first marriage. He was a wealthy owner managed land he rented to farmers in Hyde Park. Franklin had a happy and solitary childhood and received an aristocratic education. His father died in 1900. On 14 September 1901, his distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States. In December 1902, he met his ...

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In 1904, Franklin Roosevelt studied law at Columbia University in New York. He did not graduate but he preferred pass with success the Diploma exams for the New York Bar in spring 1907. He then worked for a prominent Wall Street corporate law firm in 1908, without remuneration for the first year. A legal career did not satisfy him, so he chose politics, the path of his uncle by marriage President Theodore Roosevelt. On 8 November 1910, Franklin Roosevelt won his first election to the Senate, when he only was a challenger in a difficult district. He was 28 years old. He served in the Senate fro...

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On November 5, 1912, Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected to the Senate in the Mercury-Sun period, which ended May 2, 1914. Four months later on March 17, 1913, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson. He was 31 years old. During the First World War, Roosevelt encouraged the development of submarines. In 1918, he traveled to Britain and to the front in France to supervise the American armed forces. During this trip, in London, he met Winston Churchill then Minister of Munitions. In Franklin Roosevelt's Horoscope:On March 17, 1913 is positioned at 11° 36...

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After the US declaration of war against Germany on 6 April 1917, Franklin Roosevelt traveled in the summer of 1918 to England and France as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He met Wilson Churchill in London and George Clemenceau in Paris. On his return to New York on 19 September 1918, he caught the Spanish flu. This virulent disease caused the first fatal case in Boston in mid-September 1918. There was a very high mortality rate of 3% of those infected. In the infected areas, 25% of the nurses died. The epidemic, which began in the United States in 1918, caused the deaths of at least 21 milli...

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In 1920, Franklin Roosevelt was nominated as a candidate for Vice President of the United States by the Democratic Party Convention. It was a failure. Then he worked in New York as director of a business law firm and as vice president of a trading company. On the morning of August 11, 1921, he woke up paralyzed of legs while on holiday in Canada on Campobello Island. He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis. Now some experts believe that Franklin Roosevelt suffered in reality from Guillain-Barré syndrome. From 1926, he used his wealth and fame to help paralyzed people to heal. This paralysis cause...

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From August 1921 to early 1928, Franklin Roosevelt devoted himself to treating his disability, a sudden paralysis called Guillain-Barré syndrome, diagnosed at the time as polio. He helped the others disabled by funding a hydrotherapy center in Georgia. He overcame the disease by running for governor of New York in the fall of 1928. In public, he walked with a cane had a helper; in private he used a wheelchair. On 6 November 1928, Franklin Roosevelt won the election for New York Governor by a narrow margin in the Mars-Saturn period (from May 2, 1927 to October 30, 1929). He was 46 years old. ...

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Less than a year after his success in the election for Governor of New York, the Great Depression began, the greatest economic crisis of the 20th century. Between Thursday 24 October and Tuesday 29 October 1929, the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. These days are known as Black Thursday (24 October), Black Monday (28 October) and Black Tuesday (29 October). These three fateful days are etched in the memory of the fellows. By mid-day on Thursday 24 October, the Dow Jones index fell by 22.6%, causing panic and a riot outside the Stock Exchange building after the police close...

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On 4 November 1930, Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected Governor of New York in the Mars-Moon period (from October 30, 1929 to December 1, 1931). He was 48 years old. This second term began after the stock market crash of 1929. As governor, he has managed to mitigate its disastrous consequences through a vigorous policy. His political opponents called him a socialist (which was a pejorative term for them) because he organized the protection of the unemployed through direct financial aids. He did not trust an economy of free competition without any constraints in return. He was able to improve wo...

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On 8 November 1932, Franklin Roosevelt won the election for the U.S. presidency by a large majority in the Mars-Sun period (From December 1st, 1931 to July 1st, 1933). He was 50 years old. This campaign took place at the beginning of the Great Depression caused by the Wall Street crash of 1929. Franklin Roosevelt proposed the New Deal, to tackle economic problems, the reduction of bureaucracy and the abolition of Prohibition. His opponent was an advocate of non-interference policy, the conviction that the law of the market should dominate. Franklin Roosevelt had protected the unemployed from p...

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On November 10, 1936, Franklin Roosevelt won a second election for the U.S. presidency with an additional 5 million votes (compared to 1932) in the period Jupiter-Saturn (from October 31, 1936 to May 2, 1939). He was 54 years old.From 1934 onwards, Franklin Roosevelt instituted its policy towards a second New Deal. After reforming the banking system, he decided to compensate for the failure of the private economy with numerous reforms to protect the poorest. He created the Public Works Administration which employed up to 3.3 million people to build roads, bridges and public buildings. The cent...

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On Sunday, December 7, 1941 (at 7:53 a.m. local time and 2:23 a.m. Washington time), the Japanese air force attacked the American base of Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian archipelago in the Pacific without a declaration of war. This attack was carried out by six Japanese aircraft carriers and more than 400 aircraft. It caused the death of 2,403 soldiers and civilians. A dozen American ships were sunk or damaged. Fortunately, on that day, the American aircraft carriers were maneuvering out of the harbor and several ships were able to get back to sea within a few months. The next day at noon, on 8 D...

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