Franklin D. Roosevelt served as a governor of New York when he was elected as the 32nd president of United States of America. During the start of his tenure as president of the US, the country was in a deep monetary trouble (this was better known as the Great Depression), so in order to remedy the situation Roosevelt tried to restore the public confidence, by proclaiming a bank holiday and speaking directly to the people in a series of radio broadcasts also known as the "fireside chats."
Roosevelt was born in New York, where he attended the Gorton School, Harvard College, and Columbia Law School. He started to practice law in New York and in 1905 he married his cousin - they had six children together. Roosevelt won the election to the New York Senate in 1910 and served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War 1. Roosevelt was the only president to be elected four times in a row.