Ngicela ungitshele kafushane ngomsebenzi kaFranklin Roosevelt.
Context:URovelvelt wafunda eGroton School, eHarvard College, naseColumbia Law School, waqhubeka nokwenza umthetho eNew York City. Uphumelele ukhetho lweSenate yaseNew York State ngo-1910 wabe eseba nguNobhala Osizayo Wezempi ngaphansi kukaMongameli uWoodrow Wilson ngesikhathi seMpi Yezwe I. URoosevelt wayengumlingani kaJames M. Cox othatha ithikithi leDemocratic Party okhethweni lukamongameli wase-United States ngo-1920, kodwa uCox wanqotshwa yiRiphabhulikhi uWarren G. Harding. Ngo-1921, uRoosevelt wahlaselwa isifo esiwumshayabhuqe esalimaza unomphela imilenze yakhe. Wabuyela ehhovisi likahulumeni ngokuwina ukhetho luka-1928 lwe-New York. Wakhonza njengombusi waseNew York kusukela ngo-1929 kuya ku-1933, ekhuthaza izinhlelo zokulwa nokuwohloka okukhulu kwezomnotho okwakuhlasela i-United States ngaleso sikhathi. Okhethweni lukamongameli lwango-1932, uRoosevelt wanqoba umengameli owayesebenza ngaleso sikhathi owayengumRepublican, uHerbert Hoover, ngokunqoba okukhulu.  Phakathi nezinsuku zakhe zokuqala eziyikhulu njengomongameli, uRoosevelt wahola umthetho wobumbano ongakaze ubonwe futhi wakhipha inqwaba yezinqumo zokuphatha ezasungula iNew Deal. Wadala izinhlelo eziningi zokunikeza usizo kwabangasebenzi kanye nabalimi ngenkathi efuna ukuvuselelwa komnotho ngeNational Recovery Administration kanye nezinye izinhlelo. Wabuye wasungula izinguquko ezinkulu zokulawula ezihlobene nezimali, ezokuxhumana, nezokusebenza, futhi waqondisa ukuphela kweProhibition. Ngo-1936, uRoosevelt wanqoba ukhetho olwalunqobayo njengoba umnotho wawusuthuthuke ngokushesha kusukela ngo-1933, kodwa umnotho waphinde wawela ekuhluphekeni okukhulu ngo-1937 nango-1938. Kamuva, uRoosevelt wafuna ukuba kudluliswe uMthethosivivinywa Wokuguqulwa Kwezinqubo Zobulungiswa wango-1937 kodwa wangaphumelela. Iqembu lamaqembu alwela amalungelo abantu elakhiwa ngo-1937 ukuze livimbele ukuqaliswa kwezinhlelo ezintsha nezinguquko zeNew Deal. Wagijima ngempumelelo ukuze akhethwe kabusha ngo-1940, waba ngumongameli waseMelika kuphela owakhonza isikhathi esingaphezu kwemibili.  Njengoba iMpi Yezwe II yayisondela ngemva kuka-1938 ngaphezu kokuhlasela kweJapane iChina nokuhlasela kweJalimane lamaNazi, uRoosevelt wanikeza iChina kanye ne-United Kingdom neSoviet Union ukusekelwa okunamandla kwezombusazwe nezimali kuyilapho i-United States yayingathathi hlangothi ngokusemthethweni. Ngemva kokuhlaselwa kwePearl Harbor yiJapane ngo-December 7, 1941, ngosuku olulandelayo wathola isimemezelo sempi ngeJapane, futhi ezinsukwini ezimbalwa kamuva, ngeJalimane ne-Italy. Wasebenza eduze nabanye abaholi bezwe ekuholeni ama-Allies ngokumelene namandla e-Axis. URovelvelt waqondisa ukuqoqwa komnotho waseMelika ukuze kusekelwe umzamo wempi futhi wasebenzisa isu laseYurophu kuqala. Wabuye waqalisa ukuthuthukiswa kwebhomu lokuqala le-athomu emhlabeni futhi wasebenza nabanye abaholi beZizwe Ezihlangene ukuze babeke isisekelo seZizwe Ezihlangene nezinye izikhungo zangemva kwempi. Waphinde wakhethwa ngo-1944 kodwa ngenxa yokuthi impilo yakhe yayisiwohloka kakhulu phakathi neminyaka yempi, washona ngo-1945. Ngemva kokufa kwakhe, izenzo eziningana zikaRoosevelt ziye zagxekwa kakhulu, njengokuyala kwakhe ukuba amaJapane aseMelika aboshwe emakamu okuhlushwa. Noma kunjalo, izibalo ezingokomlando zibeka njalo uRoosevelt njengomunye woMongameli abakhulu kunabo bonke emlandweni waseMelika.
UFranklin Delano Roosevelt wayengumbusi waseMelika nomholi wezepolitiki owayekhonza njengomongameli wama-32 wase-United States kusukela ngo-1933 kwaze kwaba sekufeni kwakhe ngo-1945. Ngaphambilini wayekhonze njengombusi wama-44 waseNew York kusukela ngo-1929 kuya ku-1933, uMsizi kaNobhala Wezempi kusukela ngo-1913 kuya ku-1920, kanye nelungu leSenate yaseNew York State kusukela ngo-1911 kuya ku-1913.