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- FDR’s third-term election and the 22nd amendment
It took until February 1951 to get enough states to ratify the amendment, and President Harry Truman decided to opt against running for a third term Since then, some members of Congress have introduced efforts to repeal the 22nd Amendment, but they haven’t made it out of committee
- 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Unprecedented Run For A Third Term
On November 5, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first and only U S president to be elected for more than two terms A newspaper headline depicted the historic moment with a joke that captured the public’s ambivalence toward Roosevelt’s unprecedented break from tradition: “Safe on third!”
- Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941–1945) - Wikipedia
The third presidential term of Franklin D Roosevelt began on January 20, 1941, when he was once again inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States, and the fourth term of his presidency ended with his death on April 12, 1945 Roosevelt won a third term by defeating Republican nominee Wendell Willkie in the 1940 presidential election
- FDR re-elected for a third term | November 5, 1940 | HISTORY
On November 5, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected for an unprecedented third term as president of the United States
- Third Franklin Roosevelt Administration - U-S-History. com
Roosevelt had not announced if he would run for a fourth term by then He finally declared that he wanted to retire — but felt it was his obligation to run again
- 1940: FDR’s Third Presidential Campaign - See How They Ran!
Since Vice President Garner opposed a third term – and considered reaching for the post himself – FDR selected Iowa-born Henry Wallace, his Secretary of Agriculture, to be his running mate
- A Historic Third Term: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Re-election
Roosevelt’s decision to run for a third term was controversial Prior to his candidacy, the tradition established by George Washington of serving two terms was widely respected However, the extraordinary circumstances of the time led FDR to believe that his experience was crucial for the country
- FDR’s third-term election and the 22nd amendment
Franklin Roosevelt wasn’t even the first Roosevelt to seek a third term in the White House His distant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, ran unsuccessfully as a third-party candidate in 1912, after declining to run in 1908
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