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Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected and re-elected governor of New York in 1928 and 1930. He served from January 1, 1929, until shortly after his election as President of the United States in 1932. His term as governor provided him with a high-visibility position in which to prove himself as well as provide a major base from which to launch a bid ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, ... Governor Roosevelt with his predecessor Al Smith, 1930. Smith, ...
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.
The 1928 New York state elections were held on November 6, 1928, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the state comptroller, the attorney general, a U.S. Senator and a judge [1] of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1932. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York and the vice presidential nominee of the 1920 presidential election.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Louisville for the first time in 1920 -- then while campaigning for the vice presidency with James Cox.
Roosevelt was twice elected Governor of New York, on November 6, 1928, and November 4, 1930. He moved into the Governor's Mansion in Albany in January 1929. Before he moved in, the mansion was made wheelchair-friendly with ramps and an elevator.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the greatest presidents in U.S. history. He not only guided the country through the Great Depression and World War II, he was also the only ...