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Rare photograph of Roosevelt in a wheelchair, with
Fala and Ruthie Bie, the daughter of caretakers at
his Hyde Park estate, February 1941.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945),
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd
president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his
death in 1945.
He is the longest-serving U.S. president and the only one to
have served more than two terms.
On April 12, at the Little White House, he sat for a portrait by
painter Elizabeth Shoumatoff. He told Shoumatoff, "I have a
terrific headache."
He then slumped forward in his chair, unconscious, and was
carried into his bedroom.
At 3:35 p.m. that day, his doctor Howard Bruenn diagnosed
a massive intracerebral hemorrhage and pronounced him
dead at age 63.

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