President Franklin D. Roosevelt through the years

President Franklin D. Roosevelt with his wife, Eleanor, and Tennessee Valley Authority Chairman A.E. Morgan visit the Norris Dam construction site on November 16, 1934.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at Newfound Gap on September 2, 1940. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes is seated just to the right of the microphones. Next to him at the right Eleanor Roosevelt. At extreme right Gov. Clyde Hoey of North Carolina. Also pictured are U.S. Sen. Robert Reynolds of North Carolina and U.S. Sen. Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gov. Prentice Cooper and Eleanor Roosevelt drive down Gay Street en route to the dedication ceremony for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Sept. 2, 1940.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Sept. 2, 1940, at Newfound Gap.

The April 13, 1945 edition of the Knoxville News Sentinel reports the death of President Franklin Roosevelt.

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt     • Age at time of death: 63 years     • Date of death: April 12, 1945     • Cause of death: Cerebral hemorrhage     • Place of death: Warm Springs, Georgia     Franklin D. Roosevelt holds the record for longest tenure as president, serving three terms and winning reelection to a fourth. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage while sitting for a portrait on a retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945 -- less than three months into his fourth term. According to some historians, the stresses of World War II and the 1944 reelection campaign had significantly burdened the former president’s health. Roosevelt’s body was carried by train from Georgia to his New York burial place on a route lined by hundreds of thousands of mourning Americans. Roosevelt was 63 years old at the time of his death.

As the Great Depression threatens to tear the country apart, Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd president of the United States on Saturday, March 4, 1933 and promises swift government action and regulation to remedy the nearly four-year-old crisis.

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)     • Years served as president: 1933-1945     • Political party: Democratic     • Weird fact: Roosevelt was distantly related his wife and 10 presidents.     Franklin D. Roosevelt married Anna Eleanor, his fifth cousin once removed and niece of another fifth cousin. Despite distant familial connections, the two wed in 1905, and Teddy Roosevelt was the man that gave Eleanor away. FDR claims to have other family tree ties with 10 other presidents as well.     ALSO READ: How Bad Is the Flu Season in Every State?

The Knoxville News Sentinel reports on the visit of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Sept. 2 1940.

The front page of the Nov. 9, 1932 of The Tennessean which Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidential election.

3. Franklin D. Roosevelt     • DJIA performance: +198.6%     • Served from: March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945     • Months in office: 145     • Party affiliation: Democrat     President Franklin Roosevelt served as president longer than anyone in history. Elected to office four times, Roosevelt sat in the Oval Office for 145 months and presided over some of the most tumultuous times in American -- and world -- history. Taking office during the height of the Great Depression, Roosevelt began implementing his "New Deal" policies to turn the economy around. Unpopular with the business community, Roosevelt tightened finance regulation by creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and SEC as well as a pension system with the Social Security Act.     Despite dipping at the outset of America's entrance to WWII, the Dow shot up by nearly 200% under Roosevelt.

Oct. 24, 1931: The George Washington Bridge is formally dedicated by Gov. Morgan F. Larson of New Jersey, left, and Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, right, as they sever the ribbon stretched across the bridge in New York City. The world's longest suspension bridge cost $60,000,000 and links New York and New Jersey.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, left, and George F. Johnson, about 1932.

An Asbury Park Press photo of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he arrives at Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook on Aug. 24, 1939 -- just days before Germany is set to invade Poland, starting World War II.

Following games played on Lowell Thomas's Quaker Hill estate, participants enjoyed swimming and entertainment. Here, Thomas (clad in a swimsuit) visits with President Franklin D. Roosevelt while a group named the Lumberjacks serenades them.

President Franklin Roosevelt at his home in Hyde Park, New York, in 1937.

A photo of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on a secret trip to tour the Republic Aviation plant in Evansville, IN on April 27, 1943.

The front page of the Nov. 6, 1940 of The Tennessean which Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidential election.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin sit together during the Yalta conference in February 1945.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt caught a four-foot tarpon off Port Aransas on May 3, 1937. His son Elliott and fishing guide Barney Farley hold up the fish. The photo was taken by Doc McGregor.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum points out details of the Mount Rushmore monument to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seated in car, at dedication ceremonies of the face of President Jefferson in Rapid City, S.D., on Aug. 30, 1936. Standing at left are, Sen. William J. Bulow and Gov. Tom Berry of South Dakota. At far right is Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. About 3,000 visitors attended the unveiling. (AP Photo)

This file photo shows sitting L-R: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President of the Soviet of People's Commissars of the USSR Joseph Stalin at the Black Sea resort of Yalta.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt begins his first "fireside chat" over the radio airwaves on March 12, 1933.

Then-Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, pose while vacationing in Warm Springs, Ga., October 4, 1929. Roosevelt governed New York from 1929 to 1932 before being elected president as a Democrat. (AP Photo, files)