新GRE写作名人素材库：富兰克林_GRE写作

新GRE写作名人素材库：富兰克林

　　Despite his mother s opposition, they were married in 1905, and Franklin entered Columbia University Law School. He prepared for the bar examinations and without taking a degree became a lawyer and entered a clerkship in the Wall Street firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn. He took his duties lightly, however, and it was later recalled that he had remarked to fellow clerks that he meant somehow to enter politics and finally to become president. There was never any doubt of his ambition.

　　Roosevelt s chance came in 1910. He accepted the Democratic nomination for the New York Senate and was elected. Opportunity for further notice came quickly. Although his backing had come from Democrats affiliated with New York City s notorious Tammany Hall, he joined a group of upstate legislators who were setting out to oppose the election of Tammany s choice for U.S. senator. The rebels were successful in forcing acceptance of another candidate.

　　Much of Roosevelt s wide publicity from this struggle was managed by Albany reporter Louis McHenry Howe, who had taken to the young politician and set out to further his career. The Tammany fight made Roosevelt famous in New York, but it also won him the enmity of Tammany. Still, he was reelected in 1912. That year Woodrow Wilson was elected president; Roosevelt had been a campaign worker, and his efforts had been noticed by prominent party elder Josephus Daniels. When Daniels became secretary of the Navy in Wilson s Cabinet, he persuaded Wilson to offer Roosevelt the assistant secretaryship.