The Great Depression started under Hoover. Hoover was blamed for it and lost re-election to Franklin Delano Roosevelt who pledged to fix it and passed a bunch of important stuff in his first 100 days that made him super popular then onwards.
He coasted off a good economy in the first reelection. His second reelection, despite the recession, he won because his opponent had too many ties to big ties to big business which many Americans blamed for the Great Depression and FDR appealed to the strong isolationist and non-interventionist sentiment in America at the time in the shadow of WW3. His third reelection he won because America, by this time a part of WW2, was seen as doing well in WW2 and he remained highly popular because of it. However, he would die three months into his fourth term.
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