I would go back further. The election of 1912 and Woodrow Wilson.
Well, if you want to go back, try unwisely-popular Teddy Roosevelt, the guy who loved government and taxes and the great influence behind the obnoxious and questionably ratified 16th Amendment.
But FDR shredded the Constitution and overturned our Free Constitutional Republic. For awhile the illegally-created beast lay mostly dormant.
Then Obama came along, woke up the beast, and give it new teeth.