Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution — establishes some details of presidential succession and of the beginning and ending of the terms of elected federal officials.
The first Congressional terms to begin under Section 1 were those of the 74th Congress, on January 3, 1935.
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This delay resulted in the first meeting of the 73rd Congress, along with the first inauguration of President Roosevelt and Vice President John N. Garner, taking place on March 4, 1933.
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He supported American entrance into the League of Nations, bonuses for World War I veterans, as well as the Eighteenth (Prohibition), Nineteenth (Women's Suffrage), and Twentieth (Lame Duck) amendments.