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In the summer of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, was nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. In his acceptance speech, Roosevelt addressed the problems of the depression by telling the American people that, "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people."
Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation through the Great Depression. His signature domestic legislation, the New Deal, expanded the role of the federal government in the nation’s economy in an effort to address the challenges of the Great Depression. He was elected to the presidency four times, serving from March 1933 until his ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States four times: 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. Prior to the third-term election of 1940, it was a presidential tradition set by George Washington that presidents only held the office for two terms. As a result of FDR's unprecedented four terms, the Twenty-second Amendment to the United ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (August 17, 1914 – August 17, 1988) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman. He served as a United States congressman from New York from 1949 to 1955 and in 1963 was appointed United States Under Secretary of Commerce by President John F. Kennedy. He was appointed as the first chairman of the Equal ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Key Events. March 4, 1933. Roosevelt inaugurated. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the thirty-second President of the United States. He also appoints Francis Perkins as secretary of labor, making her the first woman hold a cabinet post. March 5, 1933.
Under the leadership of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the American people and the U.S. economy gradually rebounded from the Great Depression.The New Deal policies of the Roosevelt administration brought immediate economic relief as well as reforms in industry, agriculture, finance, and labour, vastly increasing the scope of the federal government’s activities.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882. január 30-án született a New York állambeli Hyde Park-ban, egy gazdag család leszármazottjaként. Édesapja, James Roosevelt üzletember 1851-ben végezte el jogi tanulmányait a Harvard Law School egyetemen, de szakmájában nem dolgozott, miután megkapta örökségét nagyapjától, James Roosevelttől. [2]
