JATIYA KABI KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM

UNIVERSITY

ASSIGNMENT ON:
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Course Title: Principles of Management

Course Code: MGT-2101

SUBMITTED TO:
Mohammed Rafiqul Islam
Lecturer
Department of Management
Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University

SUBMITTED BY:
Mas-U-Dul Hasan Rajin
Second Batch
Department of Management
Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University
Date: 01 October 2020
 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt was an American politician who served as the

32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death. The only
president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States
through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century the Great
Depression and World War II.

Roosevelt’s full name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt and short name
was FDR. Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson
Valley town of Hyde Park, New York. His father’s name was James
Roosevelt and his mother name was Sara Ann Delano. Roosevelt was
the only child of James and Sara Delano Roosevelt but Franklin had a
half-brother from his father's previous marriage. Roosevelt grew up in
a wealthy family. His family lived in unostentatious and genteel luxury,
dividing its time between the family estate in the Hudson River valley
of New York state and European resorts. Roosevelt's father was a
prominent Bourbon Democrat. His mother Sara was the dominant
influence in Franklin's early years. She once declared that her son
Franklin is a Delano, not a Roosevelt at all.
Roosevelt was educated privately at home until age 14. Then he
attended Groton School, an Episcopal boarding school in Groton,
Massachusetts. In 1900 Roosevelt entered Harvard University, where
he spent most of his time on extracurricular activities and a strenuous
social life. He later declared that he took economics courses in college
for four years, and everything he was taught was wrong. He was a
member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and the Fly Club and served
as a school cheerleader. Roosevelt was relatively undistinguished as
a student or athlete, but he became editor-in-chief of The Harvard
Crimson daily newspaper. Roosevelt's father died in 1900, it was very
difficult for him. The following year, Roosevelt's fifth cousin Theodore
Roosevelt became President of the United States. Theodore's
vigorous leadership style and reforming zeal made him Franklin's role
model and hero. Roosevelt graduated from Harvard in 1903 with
an A.B. in history. He entered Columbia Law School in 1904 but
dropped out in 1907 after passing the New York bar exam. In 1908, he
took a job with the prestigious law firm of Carter Ledyard & Milburn,
working in the firm's admiralty law division.
Roosevelt learned to ride, shoot, row, and to play polo and lawn
tennis. He took up golf in his teen years, becoming a skilled long
hitter. He learned to sail early, and when he was 16, his father gave
him a sailboat.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin began corresponding with each other
in 1902, and in October 1903, Franklin proposed marriage to Eleanor.
On March 17, 1905, Roosevelt married Eleanor, despite strong
resistance from his mother. Eleanor and Franklin had six
children. Anna, James, and Elliott were born in 1906, 1907, and 1910,
respectively. The couple's second son, Franklin, died in infancy in
1909. Another son, also named Franklin, was born in 1914, and the
youngest child, John, was born in 1916.
Motivated by his cousin Theodore, who continued to urge young men
of privileged backgrounds to enter public service, Roosevelt looked for
an opportunity to launch a career in politics. That opportunity came in
1910, when Democratic Party leaders of Duchess County, New York,
persuaded him to undertake an apparently futile attempt to win a seat
in the state senate. Roosevelt, whose branch of the family had always
voted Democratic, hesitated only long enough to make sure his
distinguished Republican Party relative would not speak against him.
He campaigned strenuously and won the election surprising almost
everyone. Taking his seat on January 1, 1911, Roosevelt immediately
became the leader of a group of "Insurgents" who opposed
the bossism of the Tammany Hall machine that dominated the state
Democratic Party. In the New York Senate Roosevelt learned much of
the give-and-take of politics, and he gradually abandoned his patrician
airs and attitude of superiority. In the process, he came to champion
the full program of progressive reform. By 1911 Roosevelt was
supporting progressive New Jersey Gov. Woodrow Wilson for
the Democratic presidential nomination of 1912. In that year Roosevelt
was reelected to the state senate, despite an attack of typhoid
fever that prevented him from making public appearances during the
campaign. His success was attributable in part to the publicity
generated by an Albany journalist, Louis McHenry Howe. Howe saw in
the tall, handsome Roosevelt a politician with great promise, and he
remained dedicated to Roosevelt for the rest of his life.
Roosevelt was appointed assistant secretary of the navy in March
1913. Roosevelt loved the sea and naval traditions, and he knew more
about them than did his superior, navy secretary Josephus Daniels,
with whom he was frequently impatient. Roosevelt tried with mixed
success to bring reforms to the navy yards, which were under his
jurisdiction, meanwhile learning to negotiate with labor unions among
the navy’s civilian employees.

After war broke out in Europe in 1914, Roosevelt became

a vehement advocate of military preparedness, and following U.S.
entry into the war in 1917, he built a reputation as an effective
administrator. In the summer of 1918 he made an extended tour of
naval bases and battlefields overseas.
In August 1921, while Roosevelt was on vacation at Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, Canada, his life was transformed when he
was stricken with poliomyelitis. He suffered intensely, and for some
time he was almost completely paralyzed. His mother urged him to
retire to the family estate at Hyde Park, but his wife and Howe
believed it essential that he remain active in politics. For his part,
Roosevelt never abandoned hope that he would regain the use of his
legs. While attempting to recover from his condition, Roosevelt
founded a rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, Georgia, for people
with poliomyelitis. In spite of being unable to walk unaided, Roosevelt
returned to public office by winning election as Governor of New
York in 1928. He served as governor from 1929 to 1933, promoting
programs to combat the economic crisis besetting the United States.

In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican

President Herbert Hoover and become president of the United States.
He led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th
century the Great Depression and World War II. He used four terms to
solve the situation like new deal, the hundred days, Supreme Court
fight, foreign policy etc. That’s why he elected four times United
States president.

During his lifetime Franklin D. Roosevelt was simultaneously one of

the most loved and most hated men in American history. His
supporters hailed him as the savior of his nation during the Great
Depression and the defender of democracy during World War II.
Opponents criticized him for undermining American free-
market capitalism, for unconstitutionally expanding the powers of the
federal government, and for transforming the nation into a welfare
state. It is generally accepted by all, however, that he was a brilliant
politician, able to create a massive coalition of supporters that
sustained the Democratic Party for decades after his death. There is
also little argument that he was a talented administrator, able to retain
leaders of diverse views within the executive branch. At his death
most Americans were plunged into profound grief, testimony to the
strong emotional attachment they felt for the man who had led them
through two of the darkest periods in the nation’s history. Although
much of that emotion has dissipated over the years, Roosevelt’s
standing as one of the few truly great American presidents seems
secure.

Roosevelt had been suffering from advanced arteriosclerosis for more

than a year. He died on 12april 1945 at the age of 63 at his cottage
in Warm Springs, Georgia the “Little White House” for
massive cerebral hemorrhage.

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