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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