The Democratic National Committee appoints Eleanor director of Bureau of Women's Activities; FDR is elected as governor of New York. President Herbert Hoover declares that the United States is ...

Then in 1928, Al Smith is nominated for president and FDR is tapped to run for governor of New York. Smith loses to Herbert Hoover, but FDR wins his election and Eleanor Roosevelt becomes a ...

Republican Boss Thomas C. Platt assisted Roosevelt, “The hero of San Juan Hill”, to become Governor of New York in order to defeat popular Democrat, Judge Augustus van Wyck. However, when Roosevelt ...

Roosevelt fought his illness and continued to stay in politics, careful to never be seen in his wheelchair in public. He ...

Several of his closest New York associates ... he entered polities in 1923 as Roosevelt's lieuteant Governor and succeeded him as Governor in 1932. Roosevelt referred to him as "my good right ...