For the most part Franklin D. Roosevelt won the election for president in 1932 because of the dire straits of the US economy. The sitting president, US President Hoover, was blamed for the depression. To many people Roosevelt was seen as the best hope to have the economy recover.
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Hoover v. Al Smith v. John Nance v. FDR.
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FDR won a landslide victory on the strength of The New Deal.
Lacking an RDR in US history, lets assume the question is FDR and the answer is 1932, 1936, 194o and 1944.
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FDR served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for a number of years. He also was Commissioner of the New York City Police. Shortly before becoming President he was the governor of New York from 1929 to 1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1932 presidential election defeating incumbent President 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.
No- in 1928, Hoover won the presidency against Al Smith. FDR did not run until 1932.
In 1932 when FDR ran for his first term, the US and much of the world was in a great economic depression.