Today is November 7th. On this day in 1944, American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented fourth term. FDR is the only president to serve more than two terms.
Roosevelt overcame personal and political challenges to emerge as one of America’s most respected and influential presidents. In 1921, at the age of 39, he suffered from polio. There came a time when he was confined to a wheelchair.
He was first elected president in 1932.
From his first election to the presidency in 1932 until his death in office in mid-1945, Roosevelt faced two greatest crises in American history. One of them was the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II.
He had to face the Great Depression and World War II.
Roosevelt enacted harsh and often criticized laws to help the United States emerge from the Great Depression. Although they initially attempted to prevent direct U.S. involvement in World War II, which began in 1939, the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 pushed the United States into the war.
He died before the end of his fourth term.
By the time Roosevelt was elected to his fourth term, the war had swung in favor of the Allies, but his health was already failing. His arteries had hardened from the stress of serving as president during wartime. He died of a stroke in April 1945, just four months before the end of the war with the Allied victory.
The rules regarding the president’s term changed after Roosevelt.
In 1947, when Roosevelt’s vice president, Harry Truman, was in office, Congress proposed a law. According to this, presidents will be limited to only two consecutive terms. Until then, presidents voluntarily followed George Washington’s example of serving a maximum of two terms or failing to win a third term.
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The Constitution had to be reformed.
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, who had completed William McKinley’s term before being elected in his own right, ran for reelection but was defeated. In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was passed, which officially limited the president’s term to two terms of four years each.
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important events
On November 7, 1888, the great scientist of India, Sir Chandrashekhar Venkata Raman, was born in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
On November 7, 1996, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft called Mars Global Surveyor to send it to Mars.
