3. His mother supervised him until he was 14. French and German speaking tutors did the actual instruction, thus developing his early talent for the languages.
4. He developed an interest  stamp collecting, which taught him both geography and history.
5. In 1896, he was sent to Gorton School in Massachusetts. A fine private school that prepared boys for Ivy League colleges.
6. He went to Harvard in 1899, a year before his father died and graduated in 1903. He was an above average student but devoted much of his time to extracurricular activities which really affected his grades.
7. He returned to Harvard in the fall to serve as editor for the student newspaper, The Crimson.
8. In 1904, he cast his first vote in a presidential election for his cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, who became president after the assassination of president William McKinley in 1901.
9. He moved to New York where he attended Columbia Law School in 1904. Although he attended classes till 1907, he did not stay for his law degree after he passed the state examinations allowing him to practice law.
10. On March 17, 1905, he married his distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt, was present at the ceremony in New York City.
11. He entered politics in 1910, when he became a candidate for the New York Senate. He narrowly won the election but was reelected in 1912.
12. After helping Woodrow Wilson win the democratic nomination for president, he was rewarded by being appointed assistant secretary of The United States Navy, a job he kept for seven years (1913-1920).
13. He campaigned as vice president along side James M. Cox in 1920, but lost to the republican candidate, Warren G. Harding.
14. Tragedy struck him when in 1921, he was diagnosed with Poliomyelitis, which left him unable to walk unaided
15. In 1928, he was elected governor of New York by a thin margin of 25,000 out of the 4.5 million votes cast.

Presidential Facts

1. He was related by either blood or by marriage, to 11 former presidents.
2. He was the first president to appoint a woman to his cabinet when he appointed Frances Perkins secretary of labor in 1933.
3. In April, 1939, he became the first president to appear on television.
4. At 12 years, he held the presidency for longest time ever.
5. He launched the New Deal, a wide ranging domestic reform and recovery program to deal with the Great Depression.
6. He Carried out a “Good Neighbor Policy” of concern towards Latin American countries.
7. He signed the Lend-Lease Act of 1941, authorizing the government to provide economic and military aid to nations fighting against the axis powers in WWII.
8. Declared war on Japan and other axis powers after the bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1941.
9. partcipated in the Tehran and Yelta conferences, devising military startegies with leaders of Britain and the Soviet union against the axis powers.