The family estate
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FDR's home in Hyde Park, New York
Mama's boy
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Young FDR, looking a bit like a girl
Growing up
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From left to right, FDR (age 17), his father, and his cousin Warren, in Groton, Massachusetts
Harvard man
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FDR at age 19, closeup of a shot of his Harvard class
A rising star
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FDR as a state senator in Albany, New York, 1911
Polio strikes
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FDR in Warm Springs, Georgia, receiving treatment for polio (note his thin legs!), 1923
Governor Roosevelt
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FDR in Olean, New York, campaigning for governor
President Roosevelt
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A print commemorating FDR's inauguration, 1933
FDR the optimist
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Classic image of a smiling FDR, cigarette holder in mouth
Commander in Chief
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Churchill, FDR, and Stalin in Yalta, months before FDR's death in April 1945