Premise: Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( [ ˈroʊzəvəlt ] , his own pronunciation , or [ - en ˈroʊzəvɛlt ] January 30 , 1882 -- April 12 , 1945 ) , commonly known as FDR , was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945 . He directed the United States government during most of the Great Depression and World War II . He is often rated by scholars as one of the three greatest U.S. Presidents , along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln . In 1920 , presidential candidate James M. Cox selected Roosevelt as his running mate , but the Cox/Roosevelt ticket lost to the Republican ticket of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge .
Hypothesis: Franklin D. Roosevelt was born.
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