President Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Roosevelt, considered to be the last of America’s Founding Fathers, was the first president to serve more than two terms in office – serving a total of 12 years from 1933 to 1945. He was elected as the 32nd president of the United States (which compliments his position as a 32nd degree Mason) and was almost solely responsible for ushering America out of the Great Depression.

On April 12th, 1945, near the end of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage in his brain. His passing was both the end of an era and the beginning of an era

Roosevelt had inspired and led the nation out certain complete economic breakdown and possible revolution; through the rebuilding and restructuring of America; through a ferocious world war and placed the United States of America back on the road to strength, security and success. But his death also announced the coming of a period of chaotic uncertainty: the nuclear age, the Cold War, the space age, Viet Nam, and a period of seeming chaos through the 50’s and 60’s before finally resolving into a new America and World by the 1970's.