navy.
He had been Secretary of the Navy.
Before he became president in 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt had been governor of New York from 1929 to 1932. He had also been the assistant secretary of the navy from 1913 to 1920 and a member of the New York Senate from 1911 to 1913.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was president from: September 14, 1901 - March 4, 1909
The President pro tempore. I have been informed that the line of succession is as follows: * Speaker of the House of Representatives * President Pro Tempore of the Senate * Secretary of State * Secretary of the Treasury * Secretary of Defense * Attorney General * Secretary of the Interior * Secretary of Agriculture * Secretary of Commerce * Secretary of Labor * Secretary of Health and Human Services * Secretary of Housing and Urban Development * Secretary of Transportation * Secretary of Energy * Secretary of Education * Secretary of Veterans Affairs * Secretary of Homeland Security
To answer this question we need a what, who, where, when, how or why. Your question leaves out a time period and a what. There have been two Roosevelt for President.
Theodore Roosevelt
Eight U.S. Presidents had been Cabinet Members, but none was Navy Secretary. However, John Adams' great-great-grandson and John Quincy Adams' great-grandson Charles F. Adams III was Navy Secretary from 1929 to 1933.William Howard Taft was Secretary of War from 1904 to 1908. The War Department and the Navy Department both became parts of the Defense Department in 1947.Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt both served as Assistant Navy Secretaries.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt who had been president since the mid '30s
No U.S. Defense Secretary has been a U.S. President to date, but one, Dick Cheney, has been a U.S. Vice President. Two U.S. Presidents had been U.S. Secretary of War. The War Department became part of the Defense Department in 1947. The two were James Monroe and William Howard Taft.
FDR took office as president on March 4,1933. After March 4, 1944 he would have been the president for 11 years.
Lucy Mercer is the long-time love interest of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which is an affair that had been kept secret from the public until the late 60's, more than 20 years after the President had passed away (1945). This so-called mistress began her acquaintance with the President as a social secretary to his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. Lucy and the President continued to be involved even until the day of his death, when she was at his Warm Springs, GA residence.
Theodore Roosevelt - because he was vice president to William McKinley, which was the 25th President.