# Canonical recap data for Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected President (1932)
# Source: https://recap.at/1932/fdr-election-1932
# Format: YAML 1.2 (UTF-8). Generated at request time.
slug: fdr-election-1932
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1932/fdr-election-1932"
title: Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected President
subtitle: FDR's landslide victory in the depths of the Great Depression gave the presidency to an architect of the New Deal, fundamentally expanding federal government's role in economic life.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1932-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1932
decade: 1930
country:
name: United States
slug: united-states
summaryShort: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourt
summaryLong: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth focused on US involvement in World War II. A member of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt served in the New York State Senate from 1911 to 1913 and as the 44th governor of New York from 1929 to 1932.
heroImageUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/FDR-1944-Campaign-Portrait_%283x4_retouched%2C_cropped%29.jpg/1280px-FDR-1944-Campaign-Portrait_%283x4_retouched%2C_cropped%29.jpg"
heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Franklin D. Roosevelt"
importance: 86
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt"
  title: Franklin D. Roosevelt
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- election
metaDescription: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving "
wikidataQid: Q8007
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260611160949/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-11
  label: Franklin D. Roosevelt
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt"
taxonomy:
domain: political
eventTypes:
- election
canonicalClasses:
- governance
- transformation
impactRadius: national
velocity: sudden
predictability: scheduled
intentionality: planned
domainCoupling: multi_domain
lifecycleClass: transition
