NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 1936 (UP) - President Roosevelt has been returned to power for four more years by the largest vote ever given to a presidential candidate, election returns showed today.

On November 5, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a third term in office—an unprecedented act that would be barred by a constitutional amendment a decade later.

On Nov. 8, 1932, voters elected Franklin D. Roosevelt as the 32nd president of the United States, defeating incumbent President Herbert Hoover.

Although Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt flirted with pursuing a third term, the United States saw 164 years of obedience to Washington’s example until Roosevelt was elected ...

In 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the only president to successfully win a third election, doing so as World War II raged in Europe ahead of the U.S entry. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

Theodore Roosevelt: Saved by the speech 01:47. Despite the range of subjects we covered, our conversation was mostly about pace. Burns is in a great hurry to get people to slow down.

Roosevelt won the 1944 election and an unprecedented fourth term by a fairly wide margin, with about 55% of the popular vote. There were also local races here in Washington in 1944, of course.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the nation's 32nd president and the only one to be elected to four terms, was inaugurated for a fourth and final term on this day in 1945.