Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)
(Photo of Roosevelt taken a day before his death)

On January 30, 1882, future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
was born.

Roosevelt grew up the only child in an upper middle-class family
in Hyde Park, New York. He graduated from Harvard in 1904 and
later received a degree from Columbia Law School. His early
involvement in politics included a seat in the New York State
Senate and the role of Woodrow Wilson’s assistant secretary
of the Navy during World War I.

Address to Congress by Franklin D. Roosevelt December
8, 1941.

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will 
live in infamy—the United States of America was
suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and
air forces of the Empire of Japan.”