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"I'll tell you here and now that Franklin Roosevelt will not be the next President of the United States. If the Democrats nominate Roosevelt and the Republicans nominate Hoover, Huey Long will be your next President." [19] As the 1936 election approached, the Roosevelt administration grew increasingly concerned by Long's popularity. [17]
The 1936 United States presidential election in Rhode Island was held on November 3, 1936. The state voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Rhode Island voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won the state by a margin of 12.92%. Roosevelt ...
Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal is a 2022 popular history book about the 1936 United States presidential election written by David Pietrusza and published by Diversion Books. [1]
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the only election since 1856 in which Lebanon County has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. [1] Roosevelt became the first Democrat since Franklin Pierce in 1852 to win Armstrong County and the first since 1856 to win Blair County, Dauphin County, and Philadelphia County. Mifflin County ...
1936 United States presidential election in Massachusetts [6] Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Democratic: Franklin D. Roosevelt : 942,716: 51.22%: 17: Republican: Alf Landon: 768,613 41.76% 0 Union: William Lemke: 118,639 6.45% 0 Socialist: Norman Thomas: 5,111 0.28% 0 Communist: Earl Browder: 2,930 0.16% 0 Socialist Labor ...
Roosevelt had received more than 70% of the vote in Hudson County, part of the New York City metro area. In 1936, Roosevelt again broke 70% of the vote in Hudson County, but this time thirteen other counties flipped from voting for Herbert Hoover in 1932 to Roosevelt in 1936, enabling him to win the state with a much more comfortable 20 point ...
The 1936 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 3, 1936. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Virginia voted for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, over the Republican nominee, Kansas Governor Alf Landon ...
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 ...