Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady of the United States, speaker, politician, and activist

Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States in the period of 1933 to 1945. She sustains the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and become an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women. In the 1940s, Roosevelt was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations.

She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the United States Senate. During her time at the United Nations she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements. Active in politics for the rest of her life, Roosevelt chaired the John F. Kennedy administration's ground-breaking committee which helped start second-wave feminism, the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. In 1999, she was ranked in the top ten of Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.

Name	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Date Of Birth	October 11, 1884
Place Of Birth	New York, New York, United States
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Occupation	First Lady, diplomat, activist
Religion	Episcopal
Date Of Died	November 7, 1962
Place Of Died	New York, New York, United States

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was served as the 33rd President of the United States. He succeed to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after start his historic fourth term. During First World War, Truman served as an artillery officer, making him the only president to have seen combat in First World War. After the war he became element of the political machine of Tom Pendergast and was elected a county commissioner in Missouri and finally a Democratic United States senator. Truman faced challenge after confront in domestic affairs. He perplexed all predictions to win reelection in 1948, helped by his famous Whistle Stop Tour of rural America. Truman's presidency was also eventful in foreign affairs, with the end of Second World War and his decision to use nuclear weapons beside Japan, the founding of the United Nations, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe.

Born	May 8, 1884
Birth Place	Lamar, Missouri
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Bess Wallace Truman
Occupation	Small businessman, farmer
Religion	Southern Baptist
Died	December 26, 1972
Death Place	Kansas City, Missouri

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Born	January 30, 1882
Birth Place	Hyde Park, New York
Birth Name	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Eleanor Roosevelt
Occupation	Lawyer
Religion	Episcopal
Died	April 12, 1945
Death Place	Warm Springs, Georgia

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was 32nd President of the U.S. He also known by his initial FDR. The only American president selected to more than two terms. He led the United States through second World War, dying at the start of his fourth term presently as victory was near over Germany and Japan. The bipartisan traditional Coalition that formed in 1937 prevented his packing the Supreme Court or passing much new legislation; it abolished many of the release programs when unemployment practically ended during second World War. His goal was to make America the "Arsenal of Democracy" which would provide munitions to the Allies.