Who was president of the United states during the great depression?

Answer 1

There were two presidents whose terms of office overlapped those years generally defined as the Great Depression. The First was Republican Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964), who was 31st President of the United States from 1929-1933. However it was his successor, Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) who presided over the bulk of the Great Depression, which Roosevelt's administration addressed by instituting a "New Deal" strategy of Government-funded initiatives, public works programs, and overhaul of the financial system. Contrary to the old and increasingly less popular belief that president Roosevelt's attempts to engineer America's economy back into health had a positive effect, economists and historians now increasingly maintain that Roosevelt's programs actually exacerbated and lent much greater longevity to the Depression, which lasted longer in the United States than it did in any other nation that felt the effect of the global economic downturn of the time. It is now commonly upheld in academic and professional circles that state expenditures toward the war effort (World War II, 1939 - 1945) were the only beneficial contribution by Roosevelt's programs toward the recovery of the American economy.

It began under Hoover and continued under FDR.

Answer 2

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (president from 1933 to 1945)

Roosevelt's plans and projects tried to address the economic downturn, but it was eventually the boom from 1941 to 1945 (during World War II) that ended the recession. The large number of men in the military meant that unemployment was virtually nil.

Answer 3

The Great Depression began in October 1929 and lasted for about 10 years.

When the Depression began Herbert Hoover was the President (1929-1933).

In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt became President and remained so until after the depression had ended.

Answer 4

Herbert Hoover and Franklin D Roosevelt were presidents during the great depression.

Herbert Clark Hoover took the reigns of National Leadership on 4 March 1929 from Calvin Coolidge. The Nation was thriving at that moment and within four years his nameme was forever linked with slums, temporary housing and shanty towns called Hoovervilles. He received the nomination for the Republican Party to run again in 1932 against FDR in part because no Republican wanted the job in the middle of a national disaster. His use of the US Army against the Bonus March on Washington probably ended his political career. The depression was left to FDR to clean up.

Answer 5

1929 - 1933

Herbert Hoover

1933 - 1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 6

Franklin Roosevelt.

Answer 7

Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

Answer 8

Baracko Obama

Answer 9

Roosevelt (A+)