Benjamin LYMAN 1701

1.educ in Germany, Groton, Harvard (AB 1903) and Columbia Law Sch; admitted New York Bar 1907, Memb Hudson Fulton Celebration Commission 1909, New York State Senator 1911-13, Memb Plattsburg Centennial 1913, Assist-Sec Navy 1913-20, unsuccessful candidate Democratic senatorial primaries 1914, Overseer Harvard 1918-24, v-presdtl candidate 1920, ptnr Emmet, Marvin & Roosevelt, attys, 1920, V-Pres Fidelity and Deposit Co 1920-28, ptnr Roosevelt & O'Connor, attys, 1924-33, Chm Taconic State Park Commission 1925, Govr New York 1929-33, 32nd President (D) of the USA 1933-45, Pres American Nat Red Cross and Georgia Warm Spring Fndn, Congressional Medal of Honor awarded posthumously, Hon LLD: Yale 1934 and London (UK) 1943, Hon DCL Queen's U, Ontario, Canada, 1938, author: Whither Bound? (1926), The Happy Warrior: Alfred E Smith (1928), Govt � Not Politics (1932), Looking Forward (1933), On Our Way (1934), F.D.R., His Personal Letters, 1905-45, ed Elliott Roosevelt, 3 vols (1948-50), Public Papers and Addresses, 13 vols (1938-50).
Married in New York 17 March 1905 his 5th cousin once-removed (Anna) Eleanor (see under President THEODORE ROOSEVELT), only dau of Elliott Roosevelt and his w Anna Rebecca Hall, and died at the Little White House, Warm Springs, Ga., 12 April 1945 of a cerebral haemorrhage (bur Hyde Park 15 April)
Soundly defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election by a popular vote of 22,809,638 to 15,758,901 and an electoral vote of 472 to 59.
Was reelected in 1936 over Alfred Landon by votes of 27,752,869 to 16,674,665 and 523 to 8, again in 1940 over Wendell L. Willkie by votes of 27,307,819 to 22,321,018 and 449 to 82, and yet again in 1944 over Thomas E. Dewey by votes of 25,606,585 to 22,014,745 and 432 to 99; the only president elected 4 times.
Since age 39 his legs were paralyzed. Garner, Wallace, and Truman were his vice-presidents
2. Genealogy of the U.S. Presidents

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