The Penn's Grove record., 1920-07-16
Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's nomi-
nation as the Democratic candidate for
Vice President adds another chapter
to a career that closely parallels that
of his illustrious relative of the same
name. Before he was thirty, Mr..
Roosevelt, like Theodore Roosevelt,
was a member of the New York
State Legislature; both served as AS
sistant Secretary of the Navy in their
thirties; at th~irty-eight Franklin D.
Roosevelt is a candidate for Vice Pres
ident, four years younger than Theo-
dore Roosevelt when he was chosen
to run with William Mckinley.
There is a dual relationship between
the two Roosevelts. The Democratic
nominee is a fifth cousin of the former
President, and he also married a
daughter of Elliott Roosevelt, Theo-
dore Roosevelt's brother, which made
Theodore his uncle by marriage.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in
Hyde Park, Duchess county, N. Y,
January Both, 1882, the son of James
and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. Of
Dutch origin, the family came from
Holland in 1913, and in later gener-
atoms intermarried with Flemish,
Scotch and Irish settlers of what is
now the city of New York.
Graduated from Harvard in 1904
with the degree of A. B., after having
received his preliminary education at
Groton School. Graduated from Co.
lumbia Law School three years later
and was admitted to the New York
State Bar.
Up to 1910 Mr.. Roosevelt practiced
law, first with the firm of Carter, Led
yard and Milburn, and then with Mar
vim Hooker and Roosevelt, of which he
was a member.
In the 1910 State campaign he was
nominated for State Senator in the
district comprising Duchess, Putnam
and Columbia counties, which for %
years previously had been represented
by a Republican. young" Roosevelt,
as his Duchess county neighbors
knew him, made a vigorous campaign
and surprised the old-time politicians
by gaining a decisive victory.
In the 1911-12 sessions of the Leg
i~slature Senator Roosevelt gained APP
p,,ause as an anti-Tammany Democrat.
He became the leader of a band Of
about thirty Senators and Assembly
men who opposed the nomination of
William F. Sheehan to the Senate of
the United States and waged a sue
cessful fight against the Tammany
machine, which finally resulted in Mr..
Sheehan's defeat.
In 1912 he was one of the leaders of
a progressive movement within the
New York State democracy. He was
at the head of the Empire State De-
mocracy," which advocated the nomi-
nation of Woodrow Wilson in Balti-
more in 1912. In this Presidential
fight MI. Roosevelt again opposed the
machine.
Despite the opposition of the Tam
many leaders Mr.. Roosevelt was re-
nominated and reelected State Sena-
tor in 1912, carrying a district which
went overwhelmingly Republican for
the other candidates.
In March, 1918, he resigned from
the New York State Senate to accept
appointment as Assistant Secretary
of the Navy by Woodrow Wilson, a
post which he occupied during the war
and in which he still continues.
Mr.. Roosevelt is a member Of the
Episcopal Church and served for sew
eral years as vestryman and on mn
portant committees of the Diocese OF
New York. When at his home In
Hyde Park, N. Y, Mr.. Roosevelt at
tends at St. James Episcopal Church.
Mr.. Roosevelt in 1905 married Miss
Eleanor Roosevelt of Germantown N.
Y. They have three children-Anfa,
James and Elliott.