On November 7, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected for an unprecedented fourth term. FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms.
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Roosevelt has moved beyond personal and political challenges to become one of the country’s most revered and influential presidents. In 1921, at the age of 39, he contracted polio and subsequently suffered from knee pads; eventually, he was confined to a wheelchair. From when he was first elected President in 1932 until mid-1945, when he died while in office, Roosevelt chaired two of the greatest crises in the history of the United States: The Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II.
