American Decades
Letter to the Nation's Clergy and Their Responses
Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Nation's Clergy, September 24, 1935
Letter
By: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date: September 24, 1935
Source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. Letter to the Nation's Clergy, Washington, D.C. September 24, 1935. FDR Library. President's Personal File. Entry 21. Box 1. Reproduced as "Letter to the Nation's Clergy, Franklin D. Roosevelt" in the New Deal Document Library. Available online at http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/394.htm; website home page: http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed February 11, 2003).
About the Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) was born in Hyde Park, N.Y. He became assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913 and governor of New York in 1928. He is the only U.S. president to have been elected four times (in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944). He died...
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