This day in NC State history

5/26/1913

Franklin D. Roosevelt gives commencement address: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then assistant Secretary of the Navy, spoke at commencement exercises. He implored young men to "stay East" because the western expansion of the nation meant abandoned farms in the east. Find more events.

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