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Executive Order 9066

Executive order

By: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Date: February 19, 1942

Source: President. Executive Order 9066. "Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas." Federal Register 7, no. 38, 1407, February 19, 1942. Available online at http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/execordr.html; website home page: http://www.library.arizona.edu (accessed April 24, 2003).

About the Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) was born in Hyde Park, New York. He survived an adulthood bout with polio and rarely revealed his dependence upon a wheelchair. He and his wife Eleanor had six children, one of whom died in infancy. First elected in 1932, Roosevelt went on to win three more bids for the presidency, causing a...