United States Presidential Election, 1936 (Papa Mac)

The United States presidential election of 1936 was the 38th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1936. Incumbent John Nance Garner, the Democratic nominee, defeated William Borah, the Republican nominee.

After President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt's assassination in 1933 and Garner's swearing-in in his place, there was a pushback against the president's serving, as well as calls for a special election. Garner's bailout policies against the Great Depression had proven steadily more popular over the course of his first term, and he was reelected handily.