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As the campaign drew to a close, Willkie warned that Roosevelt's re-election would lead to the deployment of American soldiers abroad. In response, Roosevelt promised that, "Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." [6] Roosevelt won the 1940 election with 55% of the popular vote and almost 85% of the electoral vote (449 to 82 ...
This is the electoral history of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served as the 32nd president of the United States (1933–1945) and the 44th governor of New York (1929–1932). A member of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt was first elected to the New York State Senate in 1910, representing the 26th district.
Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term. It was also the fifth (and second consecutive) presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state; the others have been in 1860 , 1904 , 1920 , 1940 , and 2016 .
Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano. His parents, who were sixth cousins, [ 3 ] came from wealthy, established New York families—the Roosevelts , the Aspinwalls and the Delanos , respectively—and resided at Springwood , a large ...
Based on Roosevelt’s work with the March of Dimes, he was a natural choice for the U.S. dime, according to the U.S. Mint, which issued the first Roosevelt Dime in 1946.
Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected president more than twice, and no one who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected may be elected more than once. [8] Four presidents died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison ...
For the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, see: Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, first and second terms (1933–1937 and 1937–1941), as U.S. president Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, third and fourth terms (1941–1945 and January–April 1945), as U.S. president