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Under the U.S. Constitution, the officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. [3] The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] The incumbent president is Donald Trump, who assumed office on January 20, 2025.
Garner becomes the 32nd vice president. He is the last vice president to be inaugurated on March 4. 1933 – President Roosevelt establishes the New Deal, a response to the Great Depression, and focusing on what historians call the "3 Rs": relief, recovery and reform; 1933 - Emergency Banking Act
President-elect Roosevelt at his personal retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia with Henry Morgenthau Jr. and W. Forbes Morgan on November 30, 1932. Roosevelt was advised by members of his "Brain Trust". [4] Also advising Roosevelt were aides such as Louis McHenry Howe. [5]
March 3 – John Dillinger escapes from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, using a wooden pistol. March 12 – The 6.5 M w Hansel Valley earthquake affects a sparsely populated area of northern Utah with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing light damage and two deaths. [1]
March 4, 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the United States; January 3, 1934: The second session of 73rd Congress convened as mandated by the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution, that had been ratified one year earlier; August 19, 1934: House Speaker Henry Thomas Rainey died of a heart attack. The House had ...
The 1934 State of the Union Address was given on Wednesday, January 3, 1934, by the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was the first State of the Union address to be given in January since George Washington's first State of the Union Address in 1790.
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.In a historic midterm election, the Democrats built on the majorities in both houses of Congress they had won in the previous two elections.
The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (2000) global political history; 816pp excerpt; Cornelissen, Christoph, and Arndt Weinrich, eds. Writing the Great War – The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present (2020) free download; full coverage for major countries. Gardiner, Juliet, The Thirties: An Intimate History. London ...