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Becoming President at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. When he was only 39, he contracted polio. Despite these difficulties he introduced a reform package including Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed. He focused the nation's war efforts after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941 and planned the United Nations. FDR died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, Georgia in 1945 as the war drew to a close. hide information

Becoming President at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. When he was only 39, he contracted polio. Despite these difficulties he introduced a reform package including Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed. He focused the nation's war efforts after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941 and planned the United Nations. FDR died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, Georgia in 1945 as the war drew to a close. This stamp was issued by the United States Postal Service on September 10, 1998 as part of the Celebrate the Century Issue series .