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The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [6] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945.
1937 cartoon by Joseph L. Parrish in the Chicago Tribune warning Franklin D. Roosevelt's executive branch reorganization plan is a power grab. President Roosevelt calls his opponents "conservatives" as a term of abuse, they reply that they are "true liberals". [11] Most publishers favor Republican moderate Alf Landon for president. In the ...
One, Andrew Jackson, served as a military governor of a territory (Florida) before it became a state. Andrew Johnson served in Tennessee during the Civil War. 18 presidents previously served as U.S. representatives; 6 of 18 held this office prior to the four 'previous positions' shown in this table.
America divided: The civil war of the 1960s (6th ed. Oxford UP, 2020). Janeway, Michael. The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ (Columbia University Press, 2004). online; Jeffries, John W. Testing the Roosevelt coalition: Connecticut society and politics, 1940–1946 (Yale University, 1973). Jensen, Richard.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.", from Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address. [5] "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy." said by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. [6] "I shall return." U.S. General Douglas MacArthur after leaving the Philippines. [7]
1940 – Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry and Woody Woodpecker make their cartoon debuts; 1940 – Billboard magazine publishes its first music popularity chart, the predecessor to today's Hot 100; 1940 – U.S. presidential election, 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected president to a record third term, Henry A. Wallace is elected vice president
From 1930 to 1940, the number of employed women rose 24 percent from 10.5 million to 13 million. Few women worked in the high-unemployment sectors like mining and heavy industry. They worked in clerical jobs or light factories (such as food). [149] Roosevelt appointed more women to office than any previous president.
First president elected after women gained the right to vote. [86] First president to ride to and from his inauguration in a car. [33] First president to appoint a former president (William Howard Taft) to the Supreme Court. [223] First president to give his inaugural address over an amplified system. [221]