There was a view that Hoover did too little, too late. In contrast to President Hoover, Roosevelt was charismatic and an effective public speaker. He toured the country meeting voters and ...

The speaker was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was at home in Albany with his friend and advisor Felix Frankfurter, monitoring radio reports of a political disaster unfolding in Herbert Hoover's ...

but it was not enough to rescue the political fortunes of Herbert Hoover. In the 1932 presidential election, he was soundly trounced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eight days after his defeat ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of ... His economic plan was not much different than that of the defeated Herbert Hoover. Indeed, he initially advocated a balanced ...

Both Case and WRU students held straw votes in October 1932. Case went for Herbert Hoover (R), with 263 votes to Franklin D. Roosevelt's (D) 105, Norman M. Thomas' (Socialist) 82, and William Z.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30 ... In 1932, his opponent—the incumbent Herbert Hoover—blamed the economic depression on external causes. Hoover was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt ...

Smith loses to Herbert Hoover, but FDR wins his election and ... With his election to the New York State Senate in 1910, Franklin D. Roosevelt sets out to make a name for himself in Albany.