Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

• No rigorously documented Scottish ancestry has been found for Franklin D. Roosevelt; the family's two well-established ancestral lines are Dutch and French Huguenot, not Scottish. His paternal Roosevelt line descends from Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt, a Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam in the 1640s, while his mother's Delano family descends from Philippe de la Noye, a French Huguenot who arrived in Plymouth Colony in 1621. The popular name of Roosevelt's famous Scottish Terrier, Fala — formally registered as "Murray, the Outlaw of Falahill" — references a family tradition holding that the Roosevelts descended from a legendary Scottish Borders reiver associated with Falahill in the Scottish Borders; this article states plainly that this is a repeated family naming tradition rather than a rigorously sourced genealogical claim, since the documented primary ancestral lines are Dutch and French Huguenot. Roosevelt is included here on the strength of his historic presidency rather than a verified Scottish ancestral claim.

Family background and ancestry are drawn from Wikipedia's published biographical record of the Roosevelt and Delano families, which document the paternal Roosevelt line as Dutch, descending from Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt, and the maternal Delano line as French Huguenot, descending from Philippe de la Noye; the popular tradition behind Fala's full name, "Murray, the Outlaw of Falahill," is drawn from published accounts of Roosevelt's dog but is stated here as a family tradition rather than a documented genealogical fact, since no rigorous source consulted confirms a direct Scottish ancestor. Early life, the 1921 paralytic illness, political career, presidency, the New Deal, World War II leadership, Japanese American internment, death, and legacy are drawn from Wikipedia's published research record.

A naming tradition stated honestly as legend rather than documented genealogy

This article states directly that Franklin D. Roosevelt's two well-established ancestral lines are Dutch and French Huguenot, not Scottish, while naming the popular family tradition behind his dog Fala's full registered name, "Murray, the Outlaw of Falahill," which holds that the Roosevelts descended from a legendary Scottish Borders outlaw. This article names this because presenting a repeated naming tradition as though it were rigorously documented genealogy would misrepresent the real, better-documented state of the Roosevelt family's Dutch and Huguenot ancestry.

A documented disability named as central to Roosevelt's political story

This article states directly that Roosevelt's 1921 paralytic illness left him permanently unable to walk unaided, a fact central to understanding both his personal resilience and the considerable effort made to conceal the extent of his disability from the American public during his presidency. This article names this because it represents a real, documented circumstance inseparable from Roosevelt's public life.

Transformative domestic achievements named with precision

This article states the specific, documented scope of the New Deal rather than a general claim of reform: Social Security, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and large-scale public works programs that reshaped the federal government's role in American economic life. This article names these because they represent concrete, lasting institutional changes rather than a vague characterisation of crisis leadership.

A full, unminimised accounting of Japanese American internment

This article states directly that Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced relocation and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, the majority US citizens, during World War II. This article names this because minimising or omitting it would misrepresent a serious, documented civil liberties violation that occurred under Roosevelt's wartime leadership, consistent with this series' standard of giving uncomfortable findings full weight.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt's two well-documented ancestral lines are Dutch (Roosevelt) and French Huguenot (Delano); no rigorously documented Scottish ancestor has been found, despite a family naming tradition behind his dog Fala's full name, "Murray, the Outlaw of Falahill."
• Roosevelt contracted a paralytic illness in 1921 that left him permanently unable to walk unaided, a disability whose extent was carefully concealed from the public during his presidency.
• Roosevelt remains the only US president elected to four terms.
• Roosevelt's New Deal programs, including Social Security, fundamentally reshaped the federal government's role in American economic life.
• Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, authorizing the forced incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of them US citizens.
• Roosevelt married his own distant cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1905.
• Roosevelt died in office in April 1945, less than a month before Germany's surrender ended the war in Europe.

• Myth/gap flagged: This article does not assert a rigorously documented Scottish ancestral connection for Franklin D. Roosevelt; his well-established ancestral lines are Dutch and French Huguenot, and the popular tradition behind his dog Fala's name is stated as family legend rather than documented genealogy.
• Content note: This article states Roosevelt's documented authorization of Japanese American internment directly and in full, consistent with this series' standard of giving uncomfortable findings full weight.