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Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd U.S. president, took office in 1933 amid the Great Depression and implemented the New Deal, creating Social Security and the FDIC. He led the U.S. through World War II, forging alliances with Churchill and Stalin. Elected to four terms, he died in 1945 at Warm Springs, Georgia.

