Video: '1932 Democratic National Convention'

(Saturday, July 2, 1932, 5:51 p.m. CDT) — Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York broke tradition late today and established the precedent of formally accepting the nomination for President of the United States by delegates to the 1932 Democratic National Convention at Chicago Stadium in Chicago, pledging a “new deal for the American people” who were suffering at the height of the Great Depression.

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“Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage,” Roosevelt said as he concluded his address to thunderous applause. “This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.”

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Roosevelt won the nomination yesterday (July 1, 1932) on the fourth ballot, defeating former Governor Al Smith of New York, a former Roosevelt political ally, and the 1928 Democratic presidential nominee (who was defeated by Republican Herbert Hoover by a landslide in the general election), by a vote of 945 to 190.25.

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Speaker of the House John N. Garner from Texas, who had finished third on the first three presidential nomination ballots before releasing his delegates to Roosevelt, was nominated for vice president by acclamation today after General Matthew Tinley of Iowa withdrew.

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The Roosevelt-Garner ticket would face the incumbent Republican ticket of President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis, seeking re-election at the height of the Great Depression, in the 1932 United States presidential election.