Which man did not serve as a vice president to President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Robert Eneas Lamberton was the mayor of Philadelphia and died at age 53 in August 1941 after serving only eight months.
What famous piece of American infrastructure dedicated by President Roosevelt was completed in 1936?
The Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression, dedicated by President Roosevelt, and named after President Herbert Hoover.
What rule for nominating presidential candidates, which had formerly given clout to the southern states, was abolished at the 1936 convention?
In 1936, the Democratic Party adopted a rule which provided that a majority could nominate, reducing the South’s power to control nominations by voting as a bloc.