Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president a record 12 years.
He won four elections, double any other White House resident.
He captured them in avalanches, averaging 57% of the vote and a 407-point spread in the Electoral College.
To cap off his winning ways, he boosted America toward triumph in World War II.
All while maneuvering in a wheelchair and leg braces.
"He needed help getting up from age 39 forward," David Woolner, historian at the Roosevelt Institute in New York, told IBD. "He was paralyzed at the start of the Depression and metaphorically was president of a paralyzed nation. What he did was extraordinary."
And positively unparalleled, underscores Richard Harris, director emeritus of disabled student development at Ball State University in Indiana: "He's the only person so disabled to be democratically elected as head of a nation. The challenges he overcame and dealt with amid such massive changes in the country are unprecedented."
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