nov 8, 1932 - Roosevelt 1st Election

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This election took place during the Great Depression. Democratic candidate, Franklin Roosevelt, defeated Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover, in a landslide. Roosevelt’s campaign mostly focused on the failures of Hoover’s administrations and he promised to bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression with a “New Deal”. This was the first elections in 16 years that a Democratic candidate has won.

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