How did Franklin D Roosevelt get his face on a dime?

Answer 1

There was a time in the early 1900s and lincoin,washinghton,jefferson, and other presidents were on coins.So they put Franklin Delano Rossevelt (FDR) on the dime. Lincoln was the only president whose portrait was placed on a coin in the early 1900s.

FDR was handicapped by polio and often had to use a wheelchair. He strongly supported the March of Dimes campaigns that urged children to go around their neighborhoods and ask people to contribute dimes to fund research on a polio vaccine.

When Roosevelt died in 1945, it was decided to honor him by putting his portrait on the denomination that he had been so closely associated with.

Answer 2

Roosevelt contracted polio as a young man and was paralyzed from the waist down. He sponsored a program, still in operation today, called the March of Dimes. When it began it was dedicated only to discovering a cure / vaccine for polio, and was funded by collecting dimes from ordinary citizens. It was one of the first fund drives that raised money by asking for small contributions from many people, rather than a few large gifts from the wealthy.

When Roosevelt died, it was a natural thing to commemorate him by placing his portrait on the coin that was most closely associated with him. After polio vaccines were developed, the March of Dimes continued but shifted its attention to finding cures or vaccines for other debilitating diseases.

FDR died in 1945, he was placed on the dime in 1946.

Answer 3

He died in 1945, so they put his face on the dime in 1946. He led the U.S. through most of the Great Depression and WWII.

There was much more:FDR had contracted polio in 1921 and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He helped found the March of Dimes program in which children collected dimes to pay for research into the disease. That was the primary reason his image was placed on the dime.

Of course FDR never lived to see the first polio vaccine but the money raised did fund research that led to the Salk and Sabin vaccines a decade or so later.