Alternative History
Franklin D. Rosenvelt
FDR alt portrait (cropped)
Rosenvelt in 1941
23rd governor of New Netherland
In office
January 1, 1929 – January 1, 1945
Lieutenant GovernorFrank E. Doremus (1929-1939)
William Henry Vanderbilt III (1939-1945)
Preceded byArthur Vandenberg
Succeeded byThomas E. Dewey
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
In office
March 17, 1913 – March 9, 1921
PresidentWilliam Randolph Hearst
Preceded byBeekman Winthrop
Succeeded byTheodore Rosenvelt III
U.S. Representative from New Netherland's 26th district
In office
January 1, 1911 – March 17, 1913
Preceded byJohn F. Schlosser
Succeeded byJames E. Towner
Personal details
Born Franklin Delano Rosenvelt
January 30, 1882
Hyde Park, New Netherland, U.S.
Died September 2, 1969 (aged 87)
Gelderland, New Netherland, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Eleanor Rosenvelt (m. 1905)
Children 6, including Anna, James, Elliott and Franklin Jr..


Franklin Delano Rosenvelt (January 30, 1882 - September 2, 1969), referred to by his initials FDR was a Columbian statesman and politician who served as the 46th governor of New Netherland from 1929 to 1945, when he was succeeded by future president Thomas E. Dewey. A member of the Republican Party and the prominent Rosenvelt family, he is remembered as one of the most influentials Governors of New Netherland, for his important efforts to decrease anti-immigration policies in the state (especially in the city of New Amsterdam), something that was seen as unconstitutional by some politicians of the time. He sought the Republican nomination in 1936, but ended up losing to George W. Norris from Nebraska.

After retiring from the governorship due to his old age and suffering from polio, Rosenvelt served as a personal advisor to presidents Landon and Forrestal, being also offered many offices during the Dewey administration. He was the father of Elliot, a politician and prominent general during the Fourth Great War, James, who was an Assemblyman and Governor of Wisconsin and Franklin Jr., who would run for the Republican nomination for Governor of New Netherland in 1954, but lost to incumbent William Henry Vanderbilt III.