Answer: Had been governor of the state of New York.
Step-by-step explanation:
Franklin D. Roosevelt first won the election for Governor of New York in 1928. He was in that position from 1929 to 1933, a period in which made several reforms, developing different plans to fight the economic crisis the United States was going through. By 1932, Roosevelt had grown strong enough to defeat Republican Herbert Hoover in the presidential election.