He engineered a draft from the Convention to get the nomination . W W II was going on in earnest in Europe and Asia and the US, although officially neutral, was supplying arms to the allies and it seemed very likely that the US would soon go to war. The economy was picking up so the people decided to go with FDR for four more years.
I think for two big reasons. His ego was such that he did not think there was anyone in the country that do as well as he could as president and he thought that he could be re-elected again.
One unique property was that he was the only president ever to have a third term and is the only one who will ever have a third term.
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He was elected for a third term in 1941 - 1945.
He won the election in 1940, and served his third term from 1941 to 1945.
Elected third time in 1940The 32nd President of the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was elected into office four times. He was elected in 1932, and was reelected in 1936. He was elected into his third term in 1940, and his fourth in 1944. Roosevelt served from March 4, 1933 until April 12, 1945 when he died in office at the beginning of his fourth term.
Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President four times, but died early in his fourth term of office.
Franklin Roosevelt
Presedent Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in the following years:193219361940
Wendell Wilkie ran against Roosevelt in 1940.
He ran for a third term .
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He ran for a third term.