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Why FDR Is on the Dime

  • August 22, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The poliovirus mostly struck children, but President Franklin D. Roosevelt caught it as an adult in 1921. During his second term, he helped create the polio-research foundation that became the March of Dimes. In 1946, a year after his death, the U.S. Mint put his face on the dime.

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