Which state's senate was FDR elected to in 1910?
A. Massachusetts.
B. New Jersey.
C. Connecticut.
D. New York.
In 1910, Roosevelt ran for the New York State Senate from the district around Hyde Park in Dutchess County, which had not elected a Democrat since 1884. He entered the Roosevelt name, with its associated wealth, prestige and influence in the Hudson Valley, and the Democratic landslide that year carried him to the state capital of Albany, New York.