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Third inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt

20 January 1941

39th United States presidential inauguration. It took place on 20 January 1941. The setting was United States Capitol. Those involved included Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry A. Wallace, Charles Evans Hughes and John Nance Garner. Its causes included the 1940 United States presidential election.

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