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1932 Presidential Election

75,768,000

Voting Age Population

52.6%

Turnout by VAP

Results of the presidential election of 1932, won by Franklin D. Roosevelt with 472 electoral votes.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Cabinet

President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)

Vice President: John Nance Garner (1933-1941)

Secretary of State: Cordell Hull (1933-1944)

Secretary of the Treasury: Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1934-1945)

Secretary of War: George Dern (1933-1936), Harry Hines Woodring (1936-1940)

Attorney General: Homer Stille Cummings (1933-1939)

Postmaster General: James Farley (1933-1940)

Secretary of the Navy: Claude A. Swanson (1933-1939)

Secretary of the Interior: Harold L. Ickes (1933-1945)

Secretary of Agriculture: Henry A. Wallace (1933-1940)

Secretary of Commerce: Daniel C. Roper (1933-1938)

Secretary of Labor: Frances Perkins (1933-1945)

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1932 Candidate Electoral Votes

472

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Herbert Hoover

267 to win

22,818,740 popular votes (57.4%)
Running Mate: John Nance Garner

15,760,425 popular votes (39.6%)
Running Mate: Charles Curtis

The effects of the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country. Roosevelt wins by a landslide.

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