The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s campaign strategy was simply not to do anything that would distract from that unpopularity. Roosevelt’s campaign introduced ...

Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s place in the White House. Roosevelt’s ...

FDR's landslide 1932 election victory saw him carry 42 of 48 states and 472 electoral votes against incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in what was perceived as a campaign of hope following the ...

Cox chooses 38-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt to be his running mate. FDR campaigns with relish, and eventually persuades Eleanor to join him as he crisscrosses the country. She grows to enjoy ...

Roosevelt died in April 1945 ... Tsongas himself went to some length to make his campaign a cautionary tale after the fact; in late 1992, following his cancer diagnosis, he called on President ...

On October 14, 1912, Progressive Party presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt delivered one of the most remarkable campaign speeches in American history. Wounded in the chest by the bullet of a ...