{"id":6790,"date":"2014-04-11T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T15:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2022-04-13T10:13:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:13:46","slug":"69th-anniversary-president-franklin-d-roosevelt-died-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/69th-anniversary-president-franklin-d-roosevelt-died-in-office.html","title":{"rendered":"69th Anniversary: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Died in Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow marks the 69th<\/sup> anniversary of the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; on the afternoon of 12 April 1945 the nation\u2019s 32nd president died of a cerebral hemorrhage. His life ended just as the great Allied victory in World War II that he had worked so hard for was in sight. In his remarkable and unprecedented four terms and 12 years in the White House, Roosevelt steered the United States through two of the greatest traumas in its history: the Great Depression and World War II.<\/p>\n

By consolidating the power of the presidency and inserting the government into many aspects of the country\u2019s civic and economic affairs, Roosevelt was both beloved and hated. Since the 1951 ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment limits U.S. presidents to only two terms, it is safe to say we will never see another presidency like his. Historians consistently rank Roosevelt as one of America\u2019s greatest presidents, along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n

The Day FDR Died<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although confined to a wheelchair ever since paralysis struck him in 1921, Roosevelt was a hearty, energetic man. The enormous strain of leading the nation during World War II took its toll on him, however, and his health seriously deteriorated in 1945. Despite this, his sudden death was unexpected. He died in the \u201cLittle White House\u201d in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he had gone for the gentle weather and therapeutic waters for a respite. He was sitting for a portrait when he complained of a \u201cterrible headache,\u201d fainted, and never regained consciousness. He was 63.<\/p>\n

News of Roosevelt\u2019s Death Hits the Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n

Historical newspapers are a great resource for exploring your ancestors\u2019 lives\u2014and to get a glimpse into the times they lived in. Here is a collection of front-page headlines to show how newspapers broke the tragic news of Roosevelt\u2019s death to America. (Note: all of the newspaper articles used to illustrate this Blog post come from GenealogyBank\u2019s online Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, North Carolina), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, Georgia), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield, Illinois), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Daily Northwestern (Evanston, Illinois), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Marietta Journal (Marietta, Georgia), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Repository (Canton, Ohio), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, Washington), 13 April 1945, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Discover more about FDR\u2019s presidency and family life in GenealogyBank\u2019s archives now: https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?lname=Roosevelt&fname=Franklin+D<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article showing how newspapers announced to the nation the shocking news that President Franklin D. Roosevelt had suddenly died on 12 April 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12235],"tags":[6713,3453,2020,23929],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-american-history","tag-franklin-delano-roosevelt","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-politics-and-politicians"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-0411-2014-featured-graphic-franklin-roosevelt.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83971,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/83971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}