Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Birth-Death: (1882 - 1945 ) Term: (1933-1945 )

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected presidenct in the middle of a severe depression. He got the majority of the votes in 1932 to solve this economic problem. Attempts to help the depression began as soon as Roosevelt took office. Through the first hundered days he had almost dictatorial power, as Congress passed every bill proposed by him. This way the AAA, NIRA, CCC, and other organizations came into existence. The bank holiday which was declared on the second day of Roosevelt's presidency closed all the unsuitable banks. While fighting the depression at home, FDR was faced with one of the most tragic conflicts of the human era, World War II. After the Japanese attcked Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt was quick to declare war, even though the nation was not ready for it. However, under a war economy, the United States finally got out of the depression.

Administration of Franklin Roosevelt

Vice President

John N. Garner (1933-41)
Henry A. Wallace (1941-45)
Harry S. Truman (1945)

Secretary of State

Cordell Hull (1933-44)
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (1944-45)

Secretary of the Treasury

William H. Woodin (1933-34)
Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1934-45)

Secretary of War

George H. Dern (1933-36)
Harry H. Woodring (1937-40)
Henry L. Stimson (1940-45)

Attorney General

Homer S. Cummings (1933-39)
Frank Murphy (1939-40)
Robert H. Jackson (1940-41)
Francis B. Biddle (1941-45)

Postmaster General

James A. Farley (1933-40)
Frank C. Walker (1940-45)

Secretary of the Navy

Claude A. Swanson (1933-39)
Charles Edison (1940)
Frank Knox (1940-44)
James V. Forrestal (1944-45)

Secretary of the Interior

Harold L. Ickes (1933-45)

Secretary of Agriculture

Henry A. Wallace (1933-40)
Claude R. Wickard (1940-45)

Secretary of Commerce

Daniel C. Roper (1933-38)
Harry L. Hopkins (1939-40)
Jesse H. Jones (1940-45)
Henry A. Wallace (1945)

Secretary of Labor

Frances Perkins (1933-1945)