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Events on Tuesday 5 November 1940 1
1940Roosevelt elected to a third termFDR breaks the two-term traditionOn 5 November Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated the Republican Wendell Willkie and became the only US president to win a third term. He took 449 electoral votes. The two-term limit was later written into the Constitution by the 22nd Amendment.