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Franklin D Roosevelt at the Democratic Party Convention, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1933. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd President of the United States, making the speech accepting his nomination as the party's candidate for president that he flew from Albany to Chicago to deliver. His son, and aide, James Roosevelt (1907-1991), sits at his elbow. FDR defeated the Republican incumbent, Herbert Hoover, in the 1933 US presidential election and instigated the New Deal to bring America out of the Great Depression.