nov 9, 1932 - Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1st Election

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The election of 1932 was during the backdrop of the Great Depression, and was won by Franklin D. Roosevelt, making him the thirty-seventh president of the United States. Republican Herbert Hoover and Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt were running against each other, and Roosevelt won by a landslide in both the electoral and popular vote. In his first hundred days in office, Roosevelt called Congress into emergency session and launched a record of fifteen major pieces of legislation; he created dozens of federal programs collectively known as the New Deal.

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