Roosevelt Administration Era

The Roosevelt Administration

The Roosevelt Administration reshaped American governance during the New Deal and World War II. Facing unprecedented economic depression and global war, it expanded executive authority, instituted sweeping financial and social reforms, and mobilized national industry to establish the United States as a global superpower.

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Year	The Roosevelt Administration
1862	Birth of Claude Augustus Swanson (Period: March 31, 1862, Location: Swansonville, Virginia, United States (still remaining as an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County))
1871	Birth of Cordell Hull (Period: October 2, 1871, Location: Near Birdsall, Tennessee, United States (birthplace was Olympus, in what was then Overton County and is now Pickett County))
1874	Birth of Jesse Holman Jones (Period: April 5, 1874, Location: Robertson County, Tennessee, United States (around present-day Springfield))
1882	Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Period: January 30, 1882, Location: Hyde Park, New York, United States)
1884	Birth of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (Period: October 11, 1884, Location: New York City, New York, United States)
1886	Acquisition of law degree from the University of Virginia (Claude Augustus Swanson)
1890	Establishment of South Texas Lumber Company
1892	Birth of Robert Houghwout Jackson (Period: February 13, 1892, Location: Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States. The area is still around Spring Creek and is not an independent city)
1893	Election to the Tennessee House of Representatives (Cordell Hull) Election to the United States House of Representatives (Claude Augustus Swanson)
1894	Marriage (Claude Augustus Swanson, Elizabeth Deane Lyons)
1895	Beginning of management at uncle's lumber company (Jesse Holman Jones)
1898	Spanish-American War
1900	Promotion of Houston Ship Channel construction
1901	Virginia Constitutional Convention and voter restrictions
1905	Marriage (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriage (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt)
1906	Election as Governor of Virginia (Claude Augustus Swanson)
1907	Election to the United States House of Representatives (Cordell Hull)
1908	Entry into Houston Chronicle management
1910	Election to the United States Senate (Claude Augustus Swanson) Political activities surrounding Houston port development Development of political relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt
1913	Admission to the New York State Bar (Robert Houghwout Jackson)
1914	World War I
1916	Marriage (Robert Houghwout Jackson, Irene Alice Gerhardt)
1917	Marriage (Cordell Hull, Rose Frances Witz Whitney) Direction of the Red Cross Military Relief Division during World War I
1918	Death due to the Spanish Flu Pandemic Appointment as Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee (Claude Augustus Swanson)
1920	Marriage (Jesse Holman Jones, Mary Gibbs Jones)
1921	Election as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (Cordell Hull)
1923	Marriage (Claude Augustus Swanson, Lulie Lyons Hall)
1927	Recruitment of the 1928 Democratic National Convention to Houston
1928	Realization of the 1928 Democratic National Convention
1930	Black Civil Rights Support Activities Senate deliberations on the London Naval Treaty
1931	Election to the United States Senate (Cordell Hull)
1932	Large-scale economic support through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Jesse Holman Jones) Appointment as Director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Jesse Holman Jones) Participation in the Geneva Disarmament Conference
1933	New Deal Inception of the New Deal New Deal Era Social Reform Movements New Deal Support Activities Pre-World War II naval expansion New Deal economic policy as Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Appointment as Secretary of State (Claude Augustus Swanson - Note: actually Secretary of the Navy) Appointment as Secretary of State (Cordell Hull) Declaration of non-intervention policy at the Montevideo Pan-American Conference
1934	Enactment of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act Appointment to key positions in the U.S. Treasury and Justice Departments (Robert Houghwout Jackson)
1935	Launch of the "My Day" Newspaper Column
1937	Establishment of Houston Endowment
1938	Enactment of a large peacetime naval budget Appointment as United States Solicitor General (Robert Houghwout Jackson)
1939	World War II Support for Marian Anderson's Concert Diplomatic activities during World War II Death of Claude Augustus Swanson
1940	Appointment as United States Attorney General (Robert Houghwout Jackson) Legal opinion regarding the Destroyers-for-Bases Agreement Appointment as Secretary of Commerce (Jesse Holman Jones)
1941	Pacific War European Theater (World War II) Issuance of the Atlantic Charter Efforts toward the creation of the United Nations Wartime industrial mobilization of World War II Enactment of the Lend-Lease Act Appointment as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (Robert Houghwout Jackson) Japanese-American negotiations and the Hull Note Response to the Attack on Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor and American Entry into the War
1942	Japanese American Internment West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
1944	Conception of the United Nations Korematsu v. United States Resignation as Secretary of State (Cordell Hull)
1945	Early International Human Rights Diplomacy Nobel Peace Prize award (Cordell Hull) Nuremberg International Military Tribunal Appointment as U.S. Chief Prosecutor for the Nuremberg Trials (Robert Houghwout Jackson) Yalta Conference Retirement as Secretary of Commerce (Jesse Holman Jones) Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1946	Establishment of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
1947	Award of the Medal for Merit (Robert Houghwout Jackson)
1948	Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1952	Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
1954	Final Supreme Court service and death (Robert Houghwout Jackson) Death of Robert Houghwout Jackson
1955	Death of Cordell Hull
1956	Death of Jesse Holman Jones
1962	Death of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Unknown	Marriage

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New England	Boston’s prestigious family: The Bramin class Imperialism and Naval Expansion Theory Spanish-American War and Overseas Expansion World War I and International Diplomacy The New Deal and World War II Intellectuals and Journalism Policy Network Black Intellectuals
South	The Wilson Family The Roosevelt Administration Southern politician

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