Description. In the 1932 presidential election, Democratic New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt unseated incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide in both the popular vote and ...

If there’s a historical parallel for this moment, it’s probably the 1932 election and the subsequent transfer of power from Herbert Hoover to FDR. The election occurred as the Great Depression ...

He won the 1932 election in a landslide with 22.8 million votes to Hoover's 15.7 million. Roosevelt carried 42 states to Hoover's six. Journalist William Allen White said FDR's victory showed "a ...

Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. Nov. 6: The state Department of Transportation is planning a Christmas present for ...

FDR and Hoover: 1932 Transition. Eric Rauchway talked about the relationship between Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt during the post-election of 1832 and the day Lincoln was inaugurated.

Indeed, the bank holiday ultimately imposed by FDR had been designed by Hoover’s own banking officials. Hoover had weeks to put it into place and refused; FDR did so on his very first day in office.

Hoover attributed this downturn to Roosevelt’s election victory and the speculation it raised that the new administration would unleash inflation, devalue the dollar, take the U.S. off the gold ...

Apparently, many in Hoover’s circle had been eager to see their man face the New York governor in the election of 1932, believing that FDR’s partial paralysis rendered him obviously incapable ...

On March 4, 1933, President Herbert Hoover and President-elect Franklin Roosevelt sat next to each other in an open car in stony silence for the short ride from the White House to the Capitol for ...

On March 4, 1933, President Herbert Hoover and President-elect Franklin Roosevelt sat next to each other in an open car in stony silence for the short ride from the White House to the Capitol for ...

The speaker was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was at home in Albany with his friend and advisor Felix Frankfurter, monitoring radio reports of a political disaster unfolding in Herbert Hoover’s ...

It was 1932. Hoover had dispatched the military to break up a camp of World War I veterans who had massed to demand immediate payment of a bonus they had been promised for serving.