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Franklin D. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education.

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He attended Groton , a prestigious preparatory school in Massachusetts, and received a BA degree in history from Harvard in only three years Roosevelt next studied law at New York's Columbia University. When he passed the bar examination in , he left school without taking a degree. For the next three years he practiced law with a prominent New York City law firm.

He entered politics in and was elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat from his traditionally Republican home district. In the meantime, in , he had married a distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. The couple had six children, five of whom survived infancy: Anna , James , Elliott , Franklin, Jr.

As a reward for his support, Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy in , a position he held until He was an energetic and efficient administrator, specializing in the business side of naval administration. Roosevelt's popularity and success in naval affairs resulted in his being nominated for vice-president by the Democratic Party in on a ticket headed by James M.

Cox of Ohio. However, popular sentiment against Wilson's plan for US participation in the League of Nations propelled Republican Warren Harding into the presidency, and Roosevelt returned to private life. While vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick in the summer of , Roosevelt contracted poliomyelitis infantile paralysis. Despite courageous efforts to overcome his crippling illness, he never regained the use of his legs.

In time, he established a foundation at Warm Springs, Georgia to help other polio victims, and inspired, as well as directed, the March of Dimes program that eventually funded an effective vaccine.