Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on January
30, 1882, the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents
and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education.
President Roosevelt's boyhood home is a popular related attraction
at the Hyde Pa ....
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.... from Harvard in only
three years (1900-03). Roosevelt next studied law at New York's Columbia
University. When he passed the bar examination in 1907, he left school
without taking a degree. For the next three years he practiced law with a
prominent New York City law firm. He entered politics in 1910 and was
elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat from his traditionally
Republican home district.
In the meantime, in 1905, he had married a distant cousin, Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, who ....
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