Where did FDR go to school?

What did Theodore Roosevelt study in school?

Roosevelt gave up his earlier plan of studying natural science and instead decided to attend Columbia Law School, moving back into his family’s home in New York City. Roosevelt was an able law student, but he often found law to be irrational. He spent much of his time writing a book on the War of 1812.

How did James Roosevelt make his money?

Roosevelt’s business interests were primarily in coal and transportation. He was vice president of the Delaware and Hudson Railway and president of the Southern Railway Security Company.

Is FDR related to Teddy?

Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York, rose to national political prominence with the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), whose wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was Theodore’s niece.