What Is The Election Of 1932?

On May the Twelfth 1933 president Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the first of what would come to be known as fireside chats. During this chat he spoke to the American people about the recent banking holiday and what actions where to be taken to prevent the banking crisis from worsening. This speech shows Roosevelt's skills as a communicator and his ability to talk to the people in a straightforward manner.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to his first term as president of the United States in 1932, America was in a severe depression. When Franklin Roosevelt took office in March of 1933, President Hoover handed the problems of the Great Depression over to Roosevelt. Upon taking office, Franklin Roosevelt issued a bank holiday which forced all banks to close from March 6 to March 10 while he met with Congress to pass the Emergency Banking Act to allow banks with enough money to reopen and for the Federal Government to help the banks that did not have enough money (A Bank). This act was a prerequisite to many other programs that would develop under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration. Under

Two days after taking office, Roosevelt issued a proclamation closing all American banks for four days until Congress could meet in special session to consider banking-reform legislation. So great was the panic about bank failures that the "bank holiday," as the president euphemistically described it, created a general sense of relief. Three days later, Roosevelt sent to Congress the Emergency Banking Act, a generally conservative bill designed primarily to protect the larger banks from being dragged down by the weakness of smaller ones. The bill provided for Treasury Department inspection of all banks before they would be allowed to reopen, for federal assistance to some troubled institutions, and for a thorough reorganization of those in the greatest difficulty.

The year was 1929. America goes through the biggest national crisis since the American Civil War. They called it the Great Depression. The Stock Market was going down, unemployment was going up, and money was becoming scarce. The United States had to look up to the one person who could lead the country out of this national catastrophe, The President. At this time the man who had that title was none other than Herbert Hoover. Hoover, A republican, hoped that this was all a nightmare, he hoped that the Depression was a small fluke that would fix itself after a short period of time. After seeing that the Depression was getting worse had to

The two candidates in the election of 1932 were Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. It took place in the middle of the Great Depression and is one of the most known elections there is to date. When the stock market crashed and the banks went out of business everyone started losing their job, which lead to their house being repossessed and having nowhere to live. Turning to the government, citizens of the United States searched for guidance through their hard times. It was obvious by Hoover’s previous term in office that he was trying his best to help the American people, but it just was not enough. The people needed more, which is what Roosevelt promised them. In the end, Roosevelt won in a landslide, four hundred seventy-two electoral votes to fifty-nine. The popular vote was no different with Roosevelt’s 22,818,740 votes to Hoover’s 15,760,425 votes (Woolley & Peters, 1999). This election was the first time a Presidential Nominee accepted the nomination with a speech at the Convention (Goodman, n.d.).

Jefferson shrugged, “The end result wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be,” Jefferson paused for a second, “Theodore Roosevelt, we may be different people with different views, but I think you’re doing well in helping the American people. It could be worse.”

Napolean Bonaparte once stated, “A leader is a dealer in hope.” Hoover and Roosevelt had very different viewpoints on how to handle the Great Depression. Hoover preferred “rugged individualism,” and FDR preferred “helping hand” philosophies. Hoover believed in assisting business in hope that this support would create a trickle down impact which would lead to investment and more jobs. FDR, on the other hand, wanted to provide people with jobs to increase confidence and correcting failures in certain economic institutions, leading to a bubble up scenario. It is ironic that Hoover knew how it felt to suffer in poverty as a child, yet FDR better handled the job of reassuring citizens that he was the man to get the nation out of its slump.

In general society, there is a consensus on Hoover more so than nearly any other politician, and that consensus is that he was a “heartless ogre, inept and callous and reactionary, who ‘caused’ a depression then ‘did nothing’ to fix it.” Yet historians tend to take several very different views, describing him as being “like a mariner, starting off on a journey of discovery to bring home rare treasures, who is forced by sudden storms to pour all his energies into just keeping the ship afloat.” Some of their ideas are not contentious, such as that Hoover did not cause the depression. But as to what kind of president he was, and how he handled the depression, there is little agreement. Kennedy, one historian that talks of the era, states that Hoover believed “Government might indeed step in where voluntarism had manifestly failed, but only after a fair trial.” (Kennedy

Franklin D. Roosevelt ran in the presidental election in 1932 against Herbet Hoover. Before, Roosevelt had been an assistant secretary of the navy, was nominated for Vice President in 1920, and in 1928 he was the governer of New York. During his campaign, he had promised “a new deal for the American people.” He beat Hoover by an outstanding amount of votes, 472 to 59. The New Deal would later sent an affect on everyone.

The presidential election of 1932 was the first election after the beginning of the Great Depression. It pitted the incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover against the Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt. Despite the terrible economic conditions that had developed under Hoover, the Republicans believed that Hoover would be able to solve the depression with protectionism and other aggressive economic policies. Franklin D. Roosevelt was considered the frontrunner to win the nomination, but was challenged by Al Smith and John Nance Garner. FDR carried the majority, but due to the ⅔ rule used by Democrats at the time, he was unable to clinch the nomination. His campaign made a deal with one of his opponents, John Nance Garner, to drop out and become FDR’s

During the time of President 's Roosevelt 's First Inaugural Address in early 1933, the United States was still feeling the horrible shock and disappointments the Great Depression brought about. In addition, the

The United States' 1932 Election Many historians believe that the 1932 election was a popularity competition, with the prize being the chief of the white house. This is because they thought that Hoover's inability to revive the depressed economy, and his lack of a personality that reaches out to the average American, provided Roosevelt (who was very popular) with a path to victory. I shall discuss this view, with points in favour and points that argue Roosevelt had an appealing policy and opinions that ensured his triumph which did not rely on Hoover's incompetence and lack of charm. Beginning with the points in favour, it becomes easy to understand the principle behind the aforementioned

During the reign of Hoover’s Presidency, America was restricted from going to war under his command, this decision seemed right to him and must have seemed right to others at the time, however the decision would return a distasteful course. The country was landed in the Great Depression. Stocks hit their lowest mark, the banking systems crashed, which left many destitute. By the time election was in sight, there was no chance for Hoover to gain any ground against Franklin Delano Roosevelt(FDR). What was it that gave FDR solid victory? Aside from the fact that people felt tamed under the Hoover rule, they also wanted to contribute to FDR’s recovery roadmap to freedom. Part of the roadmap would include the new deal, policies to guide the new

On Wednesday, January 20, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his second inaugural address. As he spoke to his constituents, he recapitulated his last for years at office, “when four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here. We dedicated ourselves to the fulfillment of a vision—to speed the time when there would be for all the people that security and peace essential to the pursuit of happiness” (Roosevelt, 1937). Leading up to Roosevelt’s presidency, four million Americans had lost their jobs and farmer’s income had plunged by two-thirds between 1929 and 1932. President Herbert Hoover was adamant that restoring prosperity would be best achieved not by government intervention,

“I’m looking forward to helping him make good on what they saw as promises, a mandate from him, that he was going to make their lives better,”