FDR eventually served as New York State Senator and Assistant Secretary of the Navy. FDR ran for the presidential office in ...

With his election to the New York State Senate in 1910, Franklin D. Roosevelt sets out to make a name for himself in Albany, much as Theodore Roosevelt had done 29 years earlier. He joins forces ...

It was actually in 1912 that Roosevelt first distinguished himself as a person apart from the ordinary. He had been elected to the New York Senate in 1910; a remarkable feat for a Democrat within ...