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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 9, 1932 (UP) - President Hoover at 9:34 o'clock tonight conceded the election to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, his Democratic opponent. He telegraphed congratulations to ...

Plan for afternoon and evening showers and storms. The National Weather Service issued a Flood Watch from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Virginia's primary is here. Seats for Lt. Gov. & attorney general are up ...

After Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the election in 1932 and Herbert Hoover became a lame-duck president, many blamed Hoover for the downturn of the economy that would later spur the New Deal, a ...

Before 1932, Hoover and FDR were on good terms, even though Hoover regarded FDR as a lightweight. So did renowned journalist Walter Lippmann, who wrote scornfully about FDR and his political prospects ...

1932 — Herbert Hoover, Republican: 58.3%; Franklin Roosevelt, Democrat: 38.6%. 1936 — Alfred ... After losing the county by 7 points in his second election effort, FDR lost Ottawa by 33 points ...

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.