Reagan was raised in a low-income family in small towns of northern Illinois. It was the second-most lopsided presidential election in modern U.S. history after Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 victory over Alfred M. Landon, in which he won 98.5%, or 523, of the (then-total) 531 electoral votes.Soon after taking office as president, Reagan began implementing sweeping new political and economic initiatives. In October 1947 during HUAC's Hollywood hearings, Reagan (whose name also appears as 'Regan' in text of the hearings printed by the US GPO testified as resident of the Screen Actors Guild:) testified:    There has been a small group within the Screen Actors Guild which has consistently opposed the policy of the guild board and officers of the guild... suspected of more or less following the tactics that we associate with the Communist Party... At times they have attempted to be a disruptive influence...