Who was the US President during the Great Depression?
(January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), who would see the country through the crises by way of his administration’s famed “New Deal” strategy of Government funded initiatives, public works programs, and overhaul of the financial system. His Presidency was the only one to extend beyond the traditional maximum of two terms of office, made constitutional under his presidency. Elected to four terms of office, the “New Deal” and the general recovery from the majority of the Great Depression are generally considered to fall under his first term, 1932-1936. His other terms being 1936-1940, 1940-1944 and 1944-till his death in office from a Cerebral Hemorrhage on April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs Georgia. He was 62 years old.
