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Born into a patrician family in New York, Roosevelt, who grew up on the family estate at Hyde Park, New York, was an only child and pampered by his parents. A fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States, Franklin attended the exclusive Groton School in Massachusetts before entering Harvard University in 1900. After graduating from Harvard in 1904, he entered law school at Columbia University, and the following year he married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, his fifth cousin once removed. Unlike Theodore Roosevelt, who was a Republican, Franklin Roosevelt threw in his lot with the Democratic Party. His political career was launched in 1910, when he was elected to the New York State Senate. After campaigning for Woodrow Wilson in 1912, he was rewarded by being named assistant secretary of the navy (1913- 1920). After running unsuccessfully for the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with James M. Cox...
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