FDR campaigns in Brooklyn
One hundred years ago today … Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democratic Party's candidate for Vice President of the US, was making his case to Brooklynites.
FDR spent significant time campaigning in the borough of Brooklyn in 1920. He had given an eye-opening address at Brooklyn Academy of Music on February 1, 1920 in which he boasted that, as Secretary of the Navy during the war, he had countermanded orders from President Wilson. He spent Labor Day in Prospect Park, a moment the News caught on camera.
Daily News, 7 September 1920, p.1. Chronicling America.
On October 25, Roosevelt spoke at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (Court and Livingston Streets), spent the evening of October 26
Brooklyn Times-Union, 24 October 1920, p..13. Chronicling America.
He spent the early evening of October 26 courting women voters.
Standard Union, 25 October 1920, p.2. Chronicling America.
Over the span of two days, October 25-26, FDR practically barnstormed Brooklyn. He appeared at the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (32 Court Street), Erasmus Hall (Flatbush and Church Avenues), Congress Hall (Atlantic and Vermont Avenues in East New York), and the Palm Garden Hall, ( 275 Wilson Street, Bushwick).
Standard Union, 26 October 1920, p.1. Chronicling America.
WRITTEN BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, OCTOBER 25, 2020.
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