On July 18, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was nominated for President for an unprecedented third term. FDR first took office as the 32nd President in 1933, defeating incumbent Herbert Hoover.
FDR served as a New York state senator from 1911-1913, assistant secretary of the Navy from 1913-1920 and New York governor from 1929-1932. FDR’s New Deal program was aimed to lift America out of the Great Depression.
FDR would go on to be nominated to a fourth term in 1944, but due to illness he passed away during that term in 1945 and Harry S. Truman, Vice President at that time, took over.
FDR was the first and last president to be nominated for more than two terms.
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