Cordell Hull State Office Building Cordell Hull State Office Building The Cordell Hull State Office Building is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee. The building is located on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol, at 425 5th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The building was constructed from 1952 to 1954. It is 36.58 metre high and 348,606 square feet, with ten storeys. It was designed in the Art Deco architectural style. It was named in honor of Cordell Hull (1871–1955), a Tennessean who served as the 47th United States Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 2013, Jones
Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt The presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt began on March 4, 1933, when he was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States, and ended upon his death on April 12, 1945, a span of (4,422 days). Roosevelt assumed the presidency in the midst of the Great Depression. Starting with his landslide victory over Republican President Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, he would go on to win a record four presidential terms, and became a central figure in world affairs during World War II. His program for relief, recovery and reform, known as the