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The 1936 Madison Square Garden speech was a speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 31, 1936, three days before that year's presidential election.In the speech, Roosevelt pledged to continue the New Deal and criticized those who, in his view, were putting personal gain and politics over national economic recovery from the Great Depression.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican governor Alf Landon of Kansas in a landslide victory.
The 1936 Democratic National Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from June 23 to 27, 1936. The convention resulted in the nomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President John N. Garner for reelection.
President Roosevelt defeated Republican Alf Landon in the 1936 presidential election. President Roosevelt was reelected in one of the largest landslide election victories in American history, winning 61% of the popular vote, receiving 27,747,636 votes to Landon's 16,679,543 votes. President Roosevelt won an even larger Electoral College victory ...
Roosevelt re-entered national politics when he announced his bid for the presidency in the 1932 election. After securing the Democratic nomination, he unseated incumbent President Herbert Hoover , becoming the first Democrat to win an outright majority of the popular vote since Samuel J. Tilden in 1876 and effectively jumpstarting the Fifth ...
Roosevelt gave presidential nominating speeches for Smith at ... signed up millions of new members and became a major backer of Roosevelt's re-elections in 1936, 1940 ...
"I Want Roosevelt Again!" – Franklin D. Roosevelt "Willkie for the Millionaires, Roosevelt for the Millions" – Franklin D. Roosevelt "Carry on with Roosevelt" – Franklin D. Roosevelt "No Third Term" – 1940 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Wendell L. Willkie "No Fourth Term Either" – Wendell Willkie
Election day: November 3: Incumbent president: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) Next Congress: 75th: Presidential election; Partisan control: Democratic hold: Popular vote margin: Democratic +24.3%: Electoral vote: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) 523: Alf Landon (R) 8: 1936 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Landon, blue denotes