Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson became the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C. One hundred ...

A large crew was busy putting up Roosevelt, Tobin and other state candidate banners. Eight huge clusters of floodlights were erected around the infield, each equipped with loudspeakers facing in ...

President Franklin Roosevelt said, “It seldom helps to wonder how a statesman of one generation would surmount the crisis of ...

Who happened to be President of the United States at the time. Franklin Roosevelt met his fifth cousin, once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt in 1886, when her parents visited his parents at their ...

Roosevelt, who loved a simple, satisfying, and reassuring grilled cheese. FDR served during one of the most challenging moments in our nation's history, beginning his term in 1933, in the middle ...

Under the glare of an 8-inch-by-10-inch official photo of President Donald Trump in the Franklin D. Roosevelt National ...