This Week in Odessa History

Democrats swept to victory in usually heavily Republican Odessa in 1932, with Franklin D. Roosevelt running for his first term, being the overwhelming choice in the residential race and the governorship going to Clarence D. Martin, a Cheney flour mill operator.

The Great Depression was at its peak, and Odessa voters had sought a change in leadership as a means of getting the economy back in order. Roosevelt had promised this with his New Deal.

Here is the report of the 1932 election in Odessa from the November 11 issue of The Odessa Record.

The general election in Odessa went heavily Democrati...