The 1932 U.S. presidential election was the 37th quadrennial presidential election. Incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hoover was the last elected incumbent president to lose reelection until Jimmy Carter 48 years later.
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The 1932 U.S. presidential election was the 37th quadrennial presidential election. Incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hoover was the last elected incumbent president to lose reelection until Jimmy Carter 48 years later. The election marked the effective end of the Fourth Party System, which had been dominated by Republicans. Roosevelt was the first Democrat in 80 years to win an outright majority in the popular vote, the last one being Franklin Pierce in 1852. The Democratic landslides in the 1934 mid-term elections and the 1936 presidential election confirmed the commencement of the Fifth Party System. Hoover faced little opposition at the 1932 Republican National Convention. Roosevelt won by a landslide in both the electoral and popular vote. He carried every state outside of the Northeast and received the highest percentage of thepopular vote of any Democratic nominee up to that time. Hoover’s managers at the Republican Convention met in Chicago between June 14 and 16, and ran a tight ship, not allowing expressions of concern for the direction of the nation. Both rural Republicans and hard-money Republicans balked against the national Republicans at the convention and voted against the renomination of Hoover in his home state of Maryland. The tally was spectacularly lopsided: 98% of the delegate vote was for Roosevelt. He was nominated on the first ballot with 98% of the national vote, and carried the nation on the 16th ballot by a margin of 98% to 16%. The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression.
The Republican Party believed Hoover’s protectionism and aggressive fiscal policies would solve depression. Whether they were successful or not, President Hoover had little trouble securing re-nomination. Little. States Senator Joseph I France ran against Hoover in the primaries, but Hoover was often unopposed in the primary wins. Hoover won the presidential election in 1932, but his defeat to France was tempered by the fact that few delegates to the convention were chosen in the states of Maryland and New York. The winner of the 1932 presidential election would go on to win a second term in office in 1936. The next year, Hoover was re-elected to a third term as president of the United States. The race for the White House was a close race between President Hoover and former Senator John J. Blaine from Wisconsin. The vote for the vice presidential nomination was a tight race between Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas and former New York Governor Al Smith. The result was decided on the fourth ballot of the Democratic National Convention, when Garner’s supporters in California and Texas voted for Roosevelt, giving the governor a two-thirds majority and with it the presidential nomination. After three ballots, although Roosevelt had received far more delegates than any other candidate each time, he still did not have a two.thirds majority. The first vote was taken at 4: 28 on the morning of July 2, after ten hours of speeches that had begun at 5: 00 on the previous afternoon.
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