President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- FDR did extensive international travel by ship in the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere, frequently for fishing vacations.
- In 1943 he became the first sitting president to fly an airplane on a secret 16,695 mile mission to Casablanca. The plane for much of his voyage was the legendary Boeing 314 Clipper. Before the war this plane was flying directly across the Atlantic in less than 24 hours. However, war time secrecy forced his route. He went by land to Miami, flew to Trinidad and on to Belem Brazil. From there he flew to The Gambia in northern Africa (this leg took 19 hours). He switched planes and went on to Casablanca. On the return trip he took a 630 mile side trip from Gambia to Monrovia in Liberia.
- This initial trip to Europe was followed by two more wartime conferences in Europe.
| # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6-Feb-1933 | 14-Feb-1933 | United Kingdom | The Bahamas | Fishing trip. |
| 2 | 29-Jun-1933 | 1-Jul-1933 | Canada | Campobello Island | Vacation. |
| 3 | 29-Mar-1934 | 11-Apr-1934 | United Kingdom | The Bahamas | Fishing trip. |
| 4 | 5-Jul-1934 | 6-Jul-1934 | Haiti | Cap Haitien | Informal visit en route to vacation in Hawaii. |
| 5 | 10-Jul-1934 | 10-Jul-1934 | Colombia | Cartagena | Informal visit en route to vacation in Hawaii. |
| 6 | 11-Jul-1934 | 12-Jul-1934 | Panama | Panama City | Informal visit en route to vacation in Hawaii. |
| 7 | 27-Mar-1935 | 6-Apr-1935 | United Kingdom | The Bahamas | Fishing trip. |
| 8 | 16-Oct-1935 | 16-Oct-1935 | Panama | Balboa | Informal visit with President Harmodio Arias Madrid while returning to Washington, D.C. from West Coast. |
| 9 | 24-Mar-1936 | 7-Apr-1936 | United Kingdom | The Bahamas | Fishing trip. |
| 10 | 28-Jul-1936 | 30-Jul-1936 | Canada | Campobello Island | Vacation. |
| 11 | 31-Jul-1936 | 31-Jul-1936 | Canada | Quebec | Official visit; met with Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir. |
| 12 | 21-Nov-1936 | 21-Nov-1936 | United Kingdom | Trinidad | Stopped on the way to South America. |
| 13 | 27-Nov-1936 | 27-Nov-1936 | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | Addressed Brazilian Congress. |
| 14 | 30-Nov-1936 | 2-Dec-1936 | Argentina | Buenos Ames | Attended session of Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Rio de Janeiro. |
| 15 | 3-Dec-1936 | 3-Dec-1936 | Uruguay | Montevideo | Official visit; met with President Gabriel Terra. |
| 16 | 11-Dec-1936 | 11-Dec-1936 | United Kingdom | Trinidad | Stopped while returning to the United States. |
| 17 | 4-Aug-1938 | 5-Aug-1938 | Panama | BaIhoa | Informal visit with President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena during vacation in the Caribbean. |
| 18 | 18-Aug-1938 | 18-Aug-1938 | Canada | Kingston | Met with Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Albert Edward Matthews, received honorary degree from Queen's University and dedicated Thousand Islands Bridge. |
| 19 | 14-Aug-1939 | 16-Aug-1939 | Canada | Campobello Island and Sydney, Nova Scotia | Fishing trip. |
| 20 | 17-Aug-1939 | 20-Aug-1939 | United Kingdom | Bay of Islands and Bonne Bay(Newfoundland) | Fishing trip. |
| 21 | 21-Aug-1939 | 23-Aug-1939 | Canada | Halifax | Stopped while returning to the United States. |
| 22 | 27-Feb-1940 | 27-Feb-1940 | Panama | Cristobal, Balboa | Met informally with President Augusto Samuel Boyd during vacation. |
| 23 | 5-Dec-1940 | 5-Dec-1940 | United Kingdom | Jamaica | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. |
| 24 | 8-Dec-1940 | 8-Dec-1940 | United Kingdom | St. Lucia | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. |
| 25 | 8-Dec-1940 | 8-Dec-1940 | France | Martinique | Conferred with U.S. officials. |
| 26 | 9-Dec-1940 | 9-Dec-1940 | United Kingdom | Antigua | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. |
| 27 | 12-Dec-1940 | 13-Dec-1940 | United Kingdom | The Bahamas | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. Met with the Duke of Windsor at Eleutheria Island, December 13. Returned to the U.S. December 14. |
| 28 | 9-Aug-1941 | 12-Aug-1941 | United Kingdom | Argentia (Newfoundland) | Attended conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill; announced the Atlantic Charter. |
| 29 | 11-Jan-1943 | 11-Jan-1943 | United Kingdom | Trinidad | Overnight stop en route to Casablanca. |
| 30 | 12-Jan-1943 | 12-Jan-1943 | Brazil | Belem | Overnight stop en route to Casablanca. |
| 31 | 13-Jan-1943 | 13-Jan-1943 | United Kingdom | Bathurst (The Gambia) | Overnight stop en route to Casablanca. |
| 32 | 14-Jan-1943 | 25-Jan-1943 | Morocco | Casablanca | Casablanca Conference with British Prime Minister Churchill. |
| 33 | 25-Jan-1943 | 25-Jan-1943 | United Kingdom | Bathurst (The Gambia) | Overnight stop en route from Casablanca. |
| 34 | 26-Jan-1943 | 27-Jan-1943 | Liberia | Monrovia | Informal visit; met with President Edwin Barclay. |
| 35 | 28-Jan-1943 | 28-Jan-1943 | Brazil | Natal | Informal visit; met with President Getúlio Vargas. |
| 36 | 29-Jan-1943 | 29-Jan-1943 | United Kingdom | Trinidad | Overnight stop en route from Casablanca. |
| 37 | 20-Apr-1943 | 20-Apr-1943 | Mexico | Monterrey | Part of an exchange of visits with President Manuel Ávila Camacho across the border. |
| 38 | 17-Aug-1943 | 25-Aug-1943 | Canada | Quebec, Ottawa | Attended First Quebec Conference with Governor General Lord Athlone, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, and British Prime Minister Churchill. |
| 39 | 20-Nov-1943 | 20-Nov-1943 | France | Oran (Algeria) | Disembarked en route to Cairo. |
| 40 | 21-Nov-1943 | 22-Nov-1943 | Tunisia | Tunis | Overnight stop en route to Cairo. |
| 41 | 22-Nov-1943 | 26-Nov-1943 | Egypt | Cairo | Attended First Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Churchill and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. |
| 42 | 27-Nov-1943 | 2-Dec-1943 | Iran | Tehran | Attended Tehran Conference with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Churchill. |
| 43 | 2-Dec-1943 | 7-Dec-1943 | Egypt | Cairo | Attended Second Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Churchill and Turkish President İsmet İnönü. |
| 44 | 7-Dec-1943 | 9-Dec-1943 | Tunisia | Tunis | Conferred with General Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
| 45 | 8-Dec-1943 | 8-Dec-1943 | United Kingdom | Malta | Visited Allied military installations. |
| 46 | 8-Dec-1943 | 8-Dec-1943 | Italy | Castel Ventrano (Sicily) | Visited Allied military installations. |
| 47 | 9-Dec-1943 | 9-Dec-1943 | France | Dakar (Senegal) | Re-embarked for the U.S. |
| 48 | 11-Sep-1944 | 16-Sep-1944 | Canada | Quebec | Attended Second Quebec Conference with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King and British Prime Minister Churchill. |
| 49 | 2-Feb-1945 | 2-Feb-1945 | United Kingdom | Malta | Attended Malta Conference with Prime Minister Churchill. |
| 50 | 3-Feb-1945 | 12-Feb-1945 | U.S.S.R. | Yalta | Attended Yalta Conference with Soviet Premier Stalin and British Prime Minister Churchill. |
| 51 | 13-Feb-1945 | 15-Feb-1945 | Egypt | Great Bitter Lake, Suez Canal, Alexandria | Met with King Farouk of Egypt, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, Saudi Arabian King Ibn Saud, and British Prime Minister Churchill. |
| 52 | 18-Feb-1945 | 18-Feb-1945 | France | Algiers (Algeria) | Briefed U.S. Ambassadors to the United Kingdom, France, and Italy on the Yalta Conference. |
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