While the Democratic and Republican parties have dominated the office, early American history saw presidents from several now ...
In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing ... by many of this break with tradition. Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was ...
Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin ... snobbery.") Democratic though he was, he remained a gentleman in the Roosevelt tradition. Despite his social activities, F.D.R. was no ladies ...
It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president ... a remarkable feat for a Democrat within the Republican-controlled state. In opposing Tammany Hall's candidate for ...
An curved arrow pointing right. In 1936, a magazine called "Literary Digest" surveyed millions of people and predicted that Republican Alf Landon would handily defeat the Democratic incumbent ...
Changes in stock prices during Republican presidents 1925 to ... This cost him the 1932 presidential election when Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for the first time.