The American Presidential Election of 1932

Matt, thank you for an alternative point of view about Herbert as a scapegoat. Imagine winning an election in a landslide then losing the next election in a landslide. I hate to hear name-calling on the campaign trail.

You know what I just realized Hoover had the shortest presidentsy cause 1928 1929 1930 1932 lol 4 year presidentsy 😂 no disrespect to Hoover you know he tried during the Great Depression literally count on your fingers from 1928 to 1932 😂😂

Prohibition was repealed under Hoover...of all the things to blame on him why that?

Lol

I just read a good article on The Conversation about the crazy Democratic National Convention which led to FDR's nomination, and of course, it involved the mafia.

Fun fact: FDR was at Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the Yankees and the Cubs.

Fun Fact: Despite being the president from 1928-1932, Herbert Hoover lived until October 20, 1964. He lived to see Kennedy's assassination

My Great-Great-Grandmothers and Great-Great-Grandfathers wedding was delayed because of the election.

Algormancy!

Mann I just love that u used FDR's theme song. It is such a beautiful song.

It also marked the beginning of 64 years of democratic control in the house of representatives except 1938 & 1946.

Thanks for posting. November 13, 1932. The day that my paternal grandmother turned 46.

Progressive Norman Thomas of the Socialist Party should have won the 1932 POTUS election. Just as progressive author Upton Sinclair who wrote the EPIC book and plan (the New Deal on steroids) should have won the 1934 CA governor race--he was a darn Democrat but also to his credit a socialist (and vegetarian)--but FDR schemed to sabotage his campaign.

While maybe calling for stronger labor laws didn't help the great depression I have a hard time seeing that as a negative. However, I am not well educated on the Great Depression and its catalysts and might take a more detailed look at a later time.

Interesting Fact: Hoover actually had an advisor that been working for the presidency since Theodore Roosevelt that he had hope would help him win this election. But at the time the advisor been getting threats from those against prohibition that the advisor was strongly for to the point the advisor had a nervous breakdown and packed up and moved down to North Carolina to work in the mines like he use to without telling everyone, leaving Hoover to deal with the campaign himself. By time the advisor was found Hoover lost the election.

Here began a dark crisis for the Republican Party, since after The great depression that Herbert hoover did not know how to handle, the people did not trust the Republicans to lead the country. At first it was taken for granted that Thomas dewey would be the savior of the Republican Party, but by foolishly trusting in the 1948 Elections, the Republicans had to wait until 1952 for their savior to finally arrive, Dwight eisenhower. To say that Herbert hoover caused the Republican Party to sink and suffer a dark crisis for 24 years would be unfair since no one expected something like The great depression, if Al smith had won this dark crisis it would have fallen to the Democrats and they would have suffered the dark crisis, in the end it was in 1972 that the Democrats finally had their dark crisis. Hard to have another Democrat like Franklin roosevelt.

First win by a Dem since 1860. I assume that's what he meant.

Despite his nationwide loss, Hoover is the last Republican to win Philadelphia.

HH and the great depression...

"Happy Days are Here Again" is Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1932 campaign song.

The Smoot Hawley Act was the dumbest piece of legislation passed by Congress in an era of severe economic downturn. Contemporary economists and historians complelety agree the tariffs imposed by the act further worsened the Great Depression.

Election Rundown:
Took place on: Nov. 8 1932
Members of the collage: 531
Elec. Votes needed to win: 266.
Turnout: 52.6% (down 4.3% from 1928)
Candidates: Democratic Party: Incumbent New York Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Running Mate: Incumbent House speaker John Nance Garner from Texas.
Republican Party: Incumbent Herbert Hoover from California. Running Mate: Incumbent VP Charles Curtis from Kansas.
Socialist Party: Norman M. Thomas from New York. Running Mate: Former Pennsylvania HOR member James H. Maurer.
Elec. Votes: Roosevelt/Garner: 472. Hoover/Curtis: 59.
Popular Vote: Roosevelt/Garner: 22,821,277/57.41%. Hoover/Curtis: 15,761,254/39.65%. Thomas/Maurer: 884,885/2.23%. Others received less than 1%.
States Carried: Roosevelt/Garner: 42. Hoover/Curtis: 6.
Total Votes: 39,751,898
Fact for the election: First time in 80 years that a Democrat won the electoral votes and popular vote majority (Buchanan, Cleveland, and Wilson won the popular vote but didn’t get >50%)

Congratulations to Roosevelt for hoovering up Hoover's chances of reelection

Fewer kids were born, not less kids were born.

For anyone who wants to argue about the good President Hoover did not mention, Mr. Beat did defended Hoover saying he did do great things in the Hoover Song but most of it was overshadowed by him being blamed for the Great Depression

feel bad for hoover but glad fdr won

Get used to hearing the name Franklin Delano Roosevelt-he’s gonna be around for a while

My grandpa said he voted against Roosevelt all four times. He was still upset at the Democrats for World War I, he was the son of German immigrants and his older brother died in the War. He ended up losing his house and having to move back in with his parents but he refused to vote for a Democrat ever again. My other grandfather only had one chance to vote for Roosevelt in 1944 and he didn’t because he thought nobody should be president for four terms.

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Is it possible that Coolidge lowering taxes caused the Great Depression

if you could go back in time and become a president the president that I will choose would be Herbert Hoover

If I was President for those two bad times world war 1 world war II and the great depression know what to do will try to make jobs like a new job cold the support for vice President s and try to stop prohibition

How funny, democrats called hoover a socialist and yet FDR taxed and spent more than hoover and implemented policies that led to the diet socialism policies we have today!

Black Tuesday happened on my birthday
Epic I guess lol

Thanks mate, this is very useful for my history gcse coursework

Al Capone did more for the people than President Hoover during the depression

I would not vote in this election

“It was the first win of the Democrats since 1960”
That's not correct in both ways

This Roosevelt guy seems interesting. I sure hope he doesn't run for more than 2 terms.

Ah yes, the 1932 election, first win for the democrats since 1960.

Beat, i think you made an opps.
I think you meant Wilson getting the Democratic nomination in 1912 or you did mean Kennedy in 1960. The sentence just sounds odd to me, shoot maybe I'm wrong. Anyways keep it up bro!

A dead dog could have defeated Hoover in 1932.

Tbh I was kind of surprised that Herbert tried to fix the recession by taxing the rich and creating government job with infrastructure.

You said 1960

Who else wahchting this is 2021