• Franklin D. Roosevelt in Map Room
    Unknown
    Map Room
    Ground Floor
    In this color drawing, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is depicted sitting at a desk in the Map Room of the White House. This drawing shows the President sitting in a wheelchair, but during the course of his presidency, he went to great lengths to not have the public see him using a wheelchair.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Elizabeth Shoumatoff
    portrait
    This portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was painted by Elizabeth Shoumatoff in 1966. Roosevelt was sitting for Shoumatoff at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia on April 12, 1945, when he suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage and later died. Shoumatoff's original portrait remained unfinished, but she later drew additional likenesses from memory. A former governor of New York, Roosevelt served as president during the Great Depression and World War II, and is the only president to have been elected to four consecutive terms serving from March 4, 1933 until his death.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Frank O. Salisbury
    official portrait
    This oil on canvas portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was painted by Frank O. Salisbury. A former governor of New York, Roosevelt served as president during the Great Depression and World War II, and is the only president to have been elected to four consecutive terms, serving from March 4, 1933 until April 12, 1945.