Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a former Governor of New York who later became the 32nd President of the United States of America and founded the Strategic Scientific Reserve.
== Biography ==
=== Presidency ===
==== Election ====
Roosevelt was elected President in 1932, and he became famous for creating the "New Deal" as well as campaigning on overturning Prohibition in the United States, helping to end it in December 1933.
=== World War II ===
==== Creating the SSR ====
As President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt had to lead his country through turbulent times of World War II. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Roosevelt realized that Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich represented the greatest threat to liberty and justice the free world had ever seen. To counter that threat, in 1940 Roosevelt ordered the formation of the Strategic Scientific Reserve to fight the Nazi Party, even though the United States was still at peace with Germany. To ensure that only the greatest scientists work for the SSR, Roosevelt ordered Chester Phillips to recruit Howard Stark into the agency.
==== Lend-Lease ====
On March 11, 1941, Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill in order to provide aid for the Allied troops in dire times, with a set of fountain pens, which he would later give to Howard Stark. However, some individuals like Steve Rogers would later consider that signing the bill only exacerbated the crisis.
==== Creating the FEPC ====
Roosevelt took on discrimination in the workplace by creating the Fair Employment Practice Committee.
==== Meeting Howard Stark ====
Sometime later, Roosevelt personally met Howard Stark, who supported the American war effort by building one hundred thousand planes for the United States Armed Forces.
==== Fighting HYDRA ====
After the assassination of Abraham Erskine and the loss of the Super Soldier Serum in 1943, Roosevelt ordered the SSR to concentrate its efforts on battling HYDRA, the Nazi special weapons division led by the infamous Johann Schmidt.
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