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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth focused on US involvement in World War II. A member of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt served in the New York State Senate from 1911 to 1913 and as the 44th governor of New York from 1929 to 1932.
John B. Goodenough
American materials scientist (1922–2023)
Dean Acheson
American statesman and lawyer (1893-1971)
Sam Waterston
American actor, producer and director (born 1940)
W. Averell Harriman
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1891–1986)
Alexandra Paul
American actress
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
US Army Medal of Honor recipient (1886–1944)
Ayi Kwei Armah
Ghanaian writer (born 1939)
Francis Biddle
United States federal judge (1886-1968)
Fred Gwynne
American actor and writer (1926–1993)
Joseph Grew
American diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Japan (1880-1965)
C. Douglas Dillon
United States Navy officer, art collector, Metropolitan museum chairman (1909-2003)
McGeorge Bundy
American National Security Advisor (1919-1996)
Charles Grimes
American rower (1935-2007)
Jim Cooper
American politician
James Roosevelt
son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1907-1991)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.
American politician (1914–1988)
Bobby Scott
U.S. Representative from Virginia
Alex Gansa
American screenwriter and producer
James H. Smith Jr.
American Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1909-1982)
John Morgan
American sailor (1930–2025)
Harry Mathews
American author (1930 – 2017)
Stanley Rogers Resor
former lawyer and US Government official (1917–2012)
Louis Auchincloss
American lawyer, novelist and historian (1917–2010)
Bradford Washburn
American explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (1910–2007)
Curtis Sittenfeld
American novelist (1975-)
Endicott Peabody
American politician (1920-1997)
Quentin Roosevelt
son of Theodore Roosevelt (1897–1918)
Medill McCormick
American politician (1877-1925)
John Hay Whitney
American diplomat, publisher, aviator (1904–1982)
Joseph Alsop
American columnist (1910–1989)
Christopher Landau
American lawyer and diplomat
Bronson M. Cutting
American politician (1888–1935)
Harry Payne Whitney
American businessman and horse breeder (1872–1930)
Groton School
school in Groton, Massachusetts, USA
Kermit Roosevelt
United States Army officer (1889–1943)
Robert Rutherford McCormick
American lawyer, Army officer & newspaper owner (1880–1955)
Sherwood Washburn
American archaeologist, anthropologist, prehistorian and paleoanthropologist (1911–2000)
Richard Whitney
American financier and convicted embezzler (1888–1974)
Walter Russell Mead
American academic
Hiram Bingham IV
American diplomat (1903–1988)
William Bundy
American Presidential advisor (1917–2000)
Frederick Lewis Allen
American historian and editor of Harper's Magazine (1890-1954)
William Tudor Gardiner
American politician (1892–1953)
Edwin Corning
American businessman and politician (1883–1934)
Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr.
American lawyer (1897-1976)
Laurence Curtis
American politician (1893-1989)
Payne Whitney
American businessman (1876–1927)
Lathrop Brown
American politician (1883-1959)
William Kingsland Macy
American politician (1889–1961)
Ellery Sedgwick
American writer and publisher (1872-1960)
Henry Sturgis Morgan
American banker (1900–1982)
George Biddle
American painter, muralist and lithographer (1885-1973)
Richard M. Bissell, Jr.
American spy (1909-1994)
Newbold Morris
American politician
Stewart Alsop
American columnist and political analyst (1914–1974)
James Coats Auchincloss
American politician and businessman (1885-1976)
Candace Nelson
Indonesian-born American pastry chef
E. Roland Harriman
American businessman (1895–1978)
Peter Magowan
American baseball executive (1942-2019)