Josephus Daniels
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Josephus Daniels was a white supremacist, newspaper editor, Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson, and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Daniels c. 1920
Letter from Daniels confirming that the Navy Cross was conferred on Ernesto Burzagli in the name of the President of the United States in 1919. Captain Burzagli was an officer in the Royal Italian Navy.
Daniels (right) shaking hands with his successor as Secretary of the Navy, Edwin Denby.
Frank A. Daniels II (right) with brother Jonathan W. Daniels (left), sons of Josephus Daniels, in 1915
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have se
Josephus Daniels
…1948) was a white supremacist, newspaper editor, Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson, and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He managed The News & Observer in Raleigh, at the time North Carolina's largest circulation newspaper, from the 1890s until his death. Daniels was a…
Campaign portrait, 1944
A young, unbreeched Roosevelt in 1884, aged 2
Eleanor and Franklin with their first two children, 1908
Roosevelt in 1912