The year 1916 - that city is Baton Rouge
He was in office from 1929 to 1933 and served as a reform Governor, promoting programs to combat the economic crisis besetting the United States at the time. In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide.
The factor that did not contribute to industrial revolution are the people who wanted to maintain feudalism to stay in power. I think the landlords who are used to this system and did not try to adapt wouldn't want that significant change.