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An enthusiastic crowd welcomes New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Pittsburgh, PA, October 19, 1932.
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A group of citizens gather and carry posters.

Credit: Image donated by Corbis-Bettmann

In October 1932, some 50,000 people welcomed New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Pittsburgh, where he spoke at a rally held in Forbes Field. Three weeks later, on November 8th, Pennsylvania would be one of only six states to vote for incumbent Herbert Hoover. More than one million Pennsylvanians, however, voted Democrat for the first time in state history and 40 percent of the state's counties moved into the Democratic column.

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