Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline

Franklin Roosevelt

January 30, 1882 - Born at Hyde Park

March 17, 1905 - Married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

1910 - Elected to New York State Senate

April 1913 - Appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy

1920 - Nominated for Vice President on ticket with James N. Cox, but lost to Coolidge and Harding

August 1921 - Stricken with poliomyelitis at Campobello, New Brunswick, Canada

1927 - Founded the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation therapy center for the treatment of polio victims

November 6, 1928 - Elected Governor of New York

November 8, 1932 - Elected President

March 4, 1933 - Inaugurated as 32nd President

November 3, 1936 - Reelected President

November 5, 1940 - Reelected President

November 7, 1944 - Reelected President

April 12, 1945 - Died in Warm Springs, Georgia

April 15, 1945 - Buried in Hyde Park, New York

Eleanor Roosevelt

October 11, 1884 - Born in New York City

1899 - ER attends Allenswood, School. Headmistress Madame Souvestre says that Eleanor has a superior intellect and is a born leader.

1905 - Marries FDR

1912 - ER attends her first Democratic Party Convention

1918 - ER works with the Red Cross, the Navy Department to help American Servicemen in WWI

1920 - ER joins League of Women Voters and works for womens' political gains following the successful movement.

1922 - ER writes "Why I Am a Democrat," crystallizing her ideals and commitment to the Democratic Party

1932 - ER states that the country should not expect the new First Lady to be a symbol of elegance but rather, "plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt."

March 6, 1933 - ER becomes the 1st First Lady to hold press conference where only female reporters are admitted.

1945 - Regarding FDR's death, ER says " The story is over," and returns to private life at her beloved Val-Kill cottage in Hyde Park.

1945 - ER accepts President Harry Truman's offer to serve as a US delegate to the United States.

1947 - Begins work on drafting the Declaration of Human Rights

1952 - ER resigns from the UN delegation after the election of Republican President Eisenhower.

1960 - ER meets with John F. Kennedy at Val-Kill

1961 - President Kennedy reappoints ER to the UN and appoints her as the first chairperson of the President's Commission on the Status of Women

November 10, 1962 - ER dies in NYC from disseminated tuberculosis, aplastic anemia and heart failure.