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Events on Tuesday 8 November 1932 2
1932Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President of the United StatesLandslide defeat of Herbert Hoover amid the DepressionDemocrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover, winning 42 of 48 states. The result reflected public anger over the Great Depression and opened the way to the New Deal.
1932Roosevelt defeats HooverA landslide at the depth of the Great DepressionFranklin D. Roosevelt defeated the incumbent Herbert Hoover, carrying 42 of the 48 states. The result ended twelve years of Republican control of the White House and set up the New Deal. Under the rules then in force Roosevelt did not take office until March 1933, leaving a four-month interregnum at the worst point of the banking crisis.