Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) is best known as the 32nd President of the United States and the only president elected to more than two terms of office.  Born in to a prominent  family from upstate New York, Roosevelt attended the elite Groton School and Harvard College and married his distant cousin Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of the Theodore Roosevelt, shortly after graduation. He entered politics in 1910 and served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War I.   His career was sidelined in 1921 when he contracted polio and lost the use of his legs.  He was resolute in his determination to recover and founded a treatment center in Warm Springs, Georgia, which proved to be a life-changing experience. He was coaxed back into politics in 1924 and elected Governor of New York in 1928 on a reform agenda. He defeated Republican Herbert Hoover at the darkest hours of the Great Depression in 1932.  With the optimism and energy he had found in his struggles with polio he proceeded to introduce the New Deal through major legislation and a series of executive orders that provided relief, recovery and reform.  His response to the threats of Japan and Germany was equally assertive and innovative, providing first for America to be the “Arsenal of Democracy” while remaining neutral and then by mobilizing a massive war effort after the attack at Pearl Harbor.  The tenure as President took its toll, and he died at age 63 three months into his fourth term of office. He is consistently rated alongside Abraham Lincoln and George Washington as one of the top three U.S. Presidents.