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Chase Salmon Osborn (1860-1949) —
also known as Chase S. Osborn —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.; Possum Poke, Poulan, Worth
County, Ga.
Born in a log
house in Huntington
County, Ind., January
22, 1860.
Son of George A. Osborn and Margaret (Fannon) Osborn.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; postmaster;
member of Michigan
Republican State Executive Committee, 1899; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1899; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1908-11; appointed 1908; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1908;
Governor
of Michigan, 1911-12; defeated, 1914; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918, 1930; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1928;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1936.
Presbyterian.
English,
French,
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Kiwanis;
Lions;
Knights
of Pythias; Audubon
Society; National Rifle
Association; Sigma
Chi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Pi Gamma
Mu; Sons of
the American Revolution; Elks; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Grange.
Died April 11,
1949 (age 89 years, 79
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Chippewa County, Mich.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt
(1854-1941).
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot
at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks;
Grange; Knights
of Pythias.
Served as president during the Depression and World War II. His
portrait appears on the U.S. dime
(ten
cent coin).
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April 12,
1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara
(Delano) Roosevelt (1854-1941); fourth cousin once removed of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; married, March 17,
1905, to Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt (niece of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who
married William
Phillips); first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr.. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| |  | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet |
| |  | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| |  | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — Karen
Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| |  | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth |
| |  | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
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