why did Franklin D. Roosevelt get 12 years in the office? i looked on witehouse.gov and couldnt find any info

Answer 1

He was elected 4 times, and in reality, he earned 16 years in Office, but died during his 13th year.

After he died, Congress amended the constitution, limiting a president to 2 terms.

Answer 2

At that time, there was no constitutional limit on how many terms a president could hold. Roosevelt won the 1932 election and the Democrats ran him again in 1936.

But, he ran for an unprecedented third term in 1940 - America was about to go to war, and the Democrats felt that the popular president who'd led the country through the Great Depression would be a good choice to lead America through World War II (which started in September 1939 but in which America had not yet gotten involved).

The Democrats dropped the vice president who'd served with Roosevelt for his first two terms and replaced him with populist secretary of agriculture Henry Wallace

In 1944, America was at war, and the Democrats decided to keep Roosevelt in office. But they changed vice presidents again, dropping the leftist Wallace who had strong ties with the Communist Party and replacing him with conservative Southern Democrat Harry Truman.

Roosevelt was sick and the Democrats probably assumed he'd die in office, so they didn't want a radical vice president taking over the presidency upon FDR's death.

Roosevelt only served 4 months of his 4th term - he died in April 1945, and Vice President Harry Truman, after only 4 months as vp, assumed the presidency.

Shortly thereafter, the constitution was amended, so no other president would ever be allowed to serve more than 2 terms.

Answer 3

He was elected to 4 terms in office.
Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945, and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms.
1933-1937
1937-1941
1941-1945
1945-1949 (died 4-12-45)

The Constitution had no limit to how many times a man could be re-elected as president. Idea was if he could get re-elected he must be good. Washington set a standard that all presidents honored, not serving more than 2 terms. With the passage of the 22 ammendment we no longer had a choice.

The United States Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947. [1] It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951.

Answer 4

Before the 22nd Amendment which limited a Presidents ability to be elected for more than 2 terms, there was an "unwritten code" that Presidents would quit after a second term. When FDR took office this amendment had not been even imagined yet, so he took advantage of his popularity (due to WWII for the most part) and ran and won 4 terms.

Answer 5

He was first elected around the time of the Great Depression, and since he helped to lift America out of it somewhat he was re-elected. When the war erupted he went for a third term on the basis that his leadership kept the nation together in the Great Depression and could keep it together during the war. For his fourth term, he argued that the nation did NOT need a major political shift in the last climatic act of the war, so he was re-elected yet again.

Answer 6

It was actually about thirteen; he was elected four times, starting in 1932. The amendment limiting a President to two terms was enacted after Roosevelt died.

Answer 7

There is also some sort of clause that will allow the President to stay in office in the event of a world war.

Answer 8

because there were no term limits back thenand he was a great president that got thr countrie through the great deppression. They actually changed the constitution because of him serving so manytermsin office.

Answer 9

He won 3 terms. Died at start of 4th. There was no real law to limit to 2 terms then. Tho most prez only ran twice anyway

Answer 10

The 22nd Ammendment hadn't been passed yet so there was no limit on the number of times the president could be relected.