Third Term

Examples of Third Term in the following topics:

• FDR's Third Term

  • George Washington declined to run for a third term in 1796, and both Ulysses S.
  • Regardless, in 1940, FDR sought a third term.
  • The beginning of FDR's third term was marked by preparation for war.
  • Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet during Roosevelts third term, in 1941.
  • World War II dominated FDR's third term in office.

• Partisan Politics

  • The Third Party System is a term of periodization used by historians and political scientists to describe a period in American political history from about 1854 to the mid-1890s that featured profound developments in issues of nationalism, modernization, and race.
  • Under the Second and Third Party Systems, parties financed their campaigns through patronage; now civil service reform was undercutting that revenue and entirely new, outside sources of funding became critical.
  • Throughout the nineteenth century, third parties such as the Prohibition Party, Greenback Party and the Populist Party, evolved from widespread antiparty sentiment and a belief that governance should attend to the public good rather than partisan agendas.
  • As third-party candidates tried to assert themselves in mainstream politics, however, they were forced to betray the antiparty foundations of the movement by allying with major partisan leaders.
  • These alliances, and the factionalism they engendered, discouraged nonpartisan supporters and undermined the third-party movement by the end of the nineteenth century.

• Freedom in New Netherland

  • The governor of New Netherland negotiated successfully for good terms, securing religious tolerance for the Netherlanders.
  • Although largely observed in New Amsterdam and the Hudson River Valley, the terms of surrender were immediately violated by the English along the Delaware River, where pillaging, looting, and arson were undertaken under the orders of English Colonel Richard Carr who had been dispatched to secure the valley.
  • In 1673, the Dutch re-took the area but the next year, finding itself financially bankrupt, the republic relinquished New Netherland under the Second Treaty of Westminster in November, 1674, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
  • This map represents the first usage of the term New Netherland to describe the colony.

• The 1992 Election

  • Ross Perot launched a third party bid, claiming that neither Republicans nor Democrats could eliminate the deficit and make government more efficient.
  • Perot won 19% of the popular vote, one of the highest totals for a third party candidate in US history, drawing equally from both major candidates according to exit polls.
  • Meanwhile, Perot's nearly 19% of the popular vote made him, in terms of the popular vote, the most successful third-party presidential candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election.
  • In 1992, Ross Perot got the highest percentage of the popular vote of any Third Party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.

• The Fight for the Treaty

  • While Wilson was successful in negotiating the terms of peace following World War I, the next question was whether the United States Senate would approve the Treaty of Versailles by the required two-thirds vote.
  • It proved possible to build a majority coalition, but impossible to build the two-thirds majority in the Senate that was needed to pass a treaty.
  • The closest the Treaty came to passage came in mid-November 1919, when Lodge and his Republicans formed a coalition with the pro-Treaty Democrats, and were close to a two-thirds majority for a Treaty, with reservations.

• The Last of the New Deal Reforms

  • During the final stage of the New Deal, the Roosevelt administration introduced far fewer initiatives than during FDR's first term but still passed some influential legislative initiatives.
  • While some identify the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's unprecedented reform agenda as early as the beginning of his second term (1936-37), others agree that while the number and scale of initiatives introduced during the second term pale in comparison with those passed during Roosevelt's first term, the New Deal eventually and gradually ended in 1938, when Republicans recovered from their 1936 devastating loss and recorded substantial gains in Congress in the aftermath of the 1938 midterm election.
  • Although traditionally the New Deal is divided into two stages (First New Deal, 1933-34/5 and Second New Deal 1935-38), some historians refer to the final phase of the New Deal as the Third New Deal.
  • The Third New Deal usually refers to the period around and following the Recession of 1937-38 with some pointing to the the 1939 Reorganization Act (which allowed the President to reorganize the executive branch) as the end of the final phase of the New Deal.  
  • Roosevelt intended to introduce more legislation during his second term (1937-1941), but two main factors made this a much more challenging task than during his first term: the lack of political support and the threat of war.

• The Election of 1936

  • The presidential election of 1936 was the most lopsided U.S. presidential election in terms of electoral votes and the second biggest victory in terms of the popular vote.
  • Roosevelt and Alfred Landon of Kansas was the most lopsided presidential election in U.S. history in terms of electoral votes.
  • In terms of the popular vote, it remained the biggest victory until Lyndon Johnson received more popular votes in 1964 (since the popular vote began to be recorded in 1824).  
  • Many people expected Huey Long, a very popular Democratic senator from Louisiana, to run as a third-party candidate with his populist  "Share Our Wealth" program as his platform.
  • None of the third party candidates received substantial support.

• American Indians and the War Effort

  • Some 44,000 Native Americans served in the United States military during World War II, which was one-third of all able-bodied Indian men.
  • At the time, this was one-third of all able-bodied Indian men from 18 to 50 years of age and 10% of all Indian population.
  • More than 30 American Indians were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the third-highest aviation honor.
  • While the term code talkers is strongly associated with the bilingual Navajo speakers, code talking was pioneered by Cherokee and Choctaw Indians during World War I.

• Republican Turmoil & Democratic Resurgence

  • Ross Perot launched a third party bid, claiming that neither Republicans nor Democrats could eliminate the deficit and make government more efficient.
  • Perot won 19% of the popular vote, one of the highest totals for a third party candidate in US history, drawing equally from both major candidates according to exit polls.
  • From the historic high of 79% early in his term, Bush's approval rating had fallen to 56% by mid-October 1990.

• The Spread of Democracy

  • In national terms, the Jacksonians favored geographical expansion, justifying it in terms of Manifest Destiny.
  • The Whigs became the inheritors of Jeffersonian Democracy in terms of promoting schools and colleges.
  • The Jacksonian Era lasted roughly from Jackson's 1828 election until the slavery issue became dominant after 1850, after which point the American Civil War dramatically reshaped American politics and the Third Party System emerged.