The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1920-07-09
ROOSEVELT NOTED
AS PARTY LEADER
FIRM WILSON ADHERENT
Vice Presidential Nominee Fifth
Cousin of Late President-Has
Record in Politics.
(By United Press)

(By United Press)
i New York, July 9.-Franklin De-
lane Roosevelt's nomination as the
Democratic candidate for vice presi-
dent adds another chapter to a career
that closely parallels that of his illus
tratious relative and namesake. Be-
fore he was 80 Roosevelt, like Theo-
dore Roosevelt, was a member of the
New York state legislature; both were
assistant secretary of the navy in their
thirties; at SO, Franklin D. Roosevelt
is candidate for vice president, four
years younger than Theodore Roose-
welt was when he was chosen to run
with William Mckinley.
There is dual rela .ionship be-
tween the two Roosevelts. The
Democratic nominee is a fifth cousin
of the former President, and he also
married a daughter of Elliott Roose-
welt. Theodore Roosevelt's brother,
which made Theodore Roosevelt his
uncle by marriage.
These are the chief dates in Frank
lin u. Roosevelt history:
Born in Hyde Park, Duchess coun-
ty, N. Y, January 80, 1882, the son
of James and Sara (Delano) Roose-
welt. Of Dutch origin, the family
came from Holland in 1913; and in
later generations 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 receiv-
ing his preliminary education at Gro
ton school. He graduated from Column
bia law school three years later and
was admitted to the New York state
bar.
Up to 1910 Roosevelt practced law
first with the firm of Carter, Led
yard & Milburn, and then with Mar
tin, Hooker & Roosevelt, of which he
was member.
In the 1910 state campaign he was
nominated for state senator in the dis
trict comprising Duchess, Putnam and
Columbia counties, which for twenty
eight years previously had been re-
presented by Republican.
Young" Roosevelt, as his Duchess
county neighbors knew him, made a
vigorous campaign and surprised the
old-line politicians by gaining decis-
i've victory.
In the 1911-12 sessions of the legis-
lature Senator Roosevelt gained ap-
plause as an anti-Tammany Demo
crat. He became the leader of 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
Sheehan's defeat.
In 1912 he was one of the leaders
of progressive movement within the
New York state democracy. He was
at the head of the empire state de-
mocracy, which advocated the nomina-
ton of Woodrow Wilson in 1912.
Despite the opposition of Tam
many leaders, Roosevelt was re-
nominated and reelected state sena-
tor IN 1912, carrying a district which
went Republican for the other can
didates.
In March, 1913, he resigned from
the new York state senate to ACCEPT
an appointment as assistant secre-
tary of the navy, a post which he
occupied during the war and in which
he still continues.
Roosevelt's appointment to Presi-
dent Wilson's official family was re
garded by Wilson's supporters as a
fitting recognition of his proven abli-
ty in politics and public affairs. The
Tammany leaders, who, when he first
led the fight on Sheehan, referred to
him contemptuously as a kid" and a
college boy" soon found that thew
had powerful enemy to reckon with.
Roosevelt became a close ally of the
president, and his influence with re-
gard to patronage repeatedly proved a
stumbling block to the machines pro-
gram.