Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born into a wealthy family and was educated at Harvard and Columbia Law School. He became ill with polio in 1921 and was paralyzed from the waist down. Roosevelt went into politics and was elected Governor of New York and later President of the United States during the Great Depression and World War II. As President, he established programs like Social Security and raised taxes on the wealthy to deal with the economic crisis while leading the nation through World War II until his death in 1945.

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