Franklin Roosevelt was born on 30 January 1882 in Hyde Park, in the Hudson Valley just over 100 miles north of New York City. His mother Sara was 28 years old. He was her only child. His father James was 54 years old. He was his second son. He was a widower from his first marriage. He was a wealthy owner managed land he rented to farmers in Hyde Park. Franklin had a happy and solitary childhood and received an aristocratic education. His father died in 1900. On 14 September 1901, his distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States. In December 1902, he met his ...
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