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One partial term; died 2 years, 4 months, and 29 days into term 43: Zachary Taylor: 492 12th • March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850 [c] One partial term; died 1 year, 4 months, and 5 days into term 44: James A. Garfield: 199 20th • March 4 – September 19, 1881 [c] Assassinated: died 6 months and 15 days into term; 79 days after being shot 45
The first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt began on March 4, 1933, when he was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States, and the second term of his presidency ended on January 20, 1941, with his inauguration to a third term.
Unemployment fell dramatically during Roosevelt's first term. It increased in 1938 ("a depression within a depression") but continually declined after 1938. [209] Total employment during Roosevelt's term expanded by 18.31 million jobs, with an average annual increase in jobs during his administration of 5.3%. [211] [212]
February 1 - Attorney General Biddle says the government is "taking every precaution" in the prevention of fifth column activities during the evening. [62]February 2 - The Senate unanimously confirms the naval appropriations bill of 26.5 billion for funding of 25,063 naval aircraft and changes to both of the ocean naval construction programs.
For the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, see: Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, first and second terms , Roosevelt's terms as President of the United States encompassing January 1933 through January 1941
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.
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1956) Cole, Wayne S. America First: The Battle against Intervention, 1940–41 (1953) Cole, Wayne S. Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle against American Intervention in World War II (1974) Davies, Gareth, and Julian E. Zelizer, eds. America at the Ballot Box: Elections and Political History (2015) pp. 153–66.
The 1934 United States elections were held on November 6, 1934. The election took place in the middle of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term, during the Great Depression.