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As the Democratic National Convention was nominating its presidential ticket last week, several hundred people gathered in the Bronx to honor another Democrat - the late president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Some 400 people met at Bronx Community College to witness the unveiling of a bust of the former Democratic president. It was placed on exhibit in The Hall of Fame for Great Americans, which is located at the University Heights campus of the college. He joins other famous Americans such as Alexander Graham Bell, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the exhibit.
Roosevelt was voted into the shrine in 1973. He is the 102nd native-born American to be so honored. The first Hall of Fame in the United States, it was established in 1900 by the then-chancellor of New York University, which occupied the campus until 1973. The busts of three other "great Americans" must still be installed, a college official said. The last time the college of electors met to select inductees was in 1976. A group will debate new rules for admission so that future inductees will be more representative of the diversity in this country.
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