In 1932, his major opponent was incumbent President Herbert Hoover.
In 1936, it was Kansas Governor Alf Landon.
In 1940, it was corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie.
In 1944, it was New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey.
Franklin D. Roosevelt beat Thomas E. Dewey in the 1944 election, and Harry S Truman beat him in the 1948 election.
Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt beat Commonwealth & Southern Corp. Lawyer Wendell Willkie 449 to 82 in 1940.
Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1932 presidential election defeating Herbert Hoover. In the 1932 presidential election Franklin Roosevelt received 472 electoral votes and Herbert Hoover received 59 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Roosevelt 22,829,501 and Hoover 15,760,684. Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas received 884,781 popular votes for President, but no electoral votes.
The Vice President.
there are many differences. Franklin deleno roosevelt WAS ELECTED FOR FOUR TERMS BECAUSE HE WAS SO POPULAR. HE GOT THE UNITED STATES THROUGH THE DEPRESSION AND THROUGH WORLD WAR TWO. IN POLLS CONDUCTED BY HISTORIANS THEY SAY THA LINCOLN WOULD ALEWAYS BE FIRAST WITGH FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT IN SECOND OR ON THE RARE OCCASION WHEN HE IS BEAT BY WASHINGTON IN THIR4D.
The candidates in 1912 were the incumbent Republican,Wm. Howard Taft, the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson and ex-president, Theodore Roosevelt who ran as a third-party ( Bull-Moose) candidate. Roosevelt got more votes than Taft but not enough to beat Wilson.
Franklin Pierce beat Winfield Scott in the U. S. Presidential election of 1852.
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John Adams. Adams only had one term.
General Winfield Scott
The Democratic Party was more successful in the 1932 elections. Its candidate, Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the presidential election by a wide margin, defeating the incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover. The Democrats also gained a significant majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton all beat the incumbent president to win the presidency.