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 ...

Highlights of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life is featured. Author Scott Martelle talked about Franklin Roosevelt's relationship with Herbert Hoover as well as his perspective on the economy and ...

As it happened, Roosevelt as president was no more willing to pay the bonus early than Hoover and Mellon had been. In 1936, Congress overwhelmingly passed a measure to pay the bonus immediately ...

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 ...

Hoover received 54.8% of the popular vote and all five electoral votes, according to The American Presidency Project. "In addition to being a Catholic, (Smith) was against prohibition," Hanson said.

Snip-snip-snip-snip. Herbert Hoover was cutting up into paragraphs a rough draft of a campaign speech. His scissors made the only sound in the quiet of the Lincoln Study. Over a large table he ...

In the 1932 presidential election, Franklin Delano Roosevelt wiped the floor with his Republican rival, Herbert Hoover. He won the Electoral College 472-59, and bested the incumbent with 57 ...

Talmage Boston: On the anniversary of FDR’s death, Boston examines the legacy of the New Deal and the expanded role of government in American life.