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3 days ago · Roosevelt soundly defeated Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York in the 1944 election, but his margin of victory was smaller than it had been previously. His running mate, chosen by leaders who disliked former vice president Henry A. Wallace for his extreme liberalism, was Sen. Harry S. Truman of Missouri , a party Democrat who had distinguished ...
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3 days ago · The moderate Eastern Republicans were led by New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the party's presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948. The moderates tended to be interventionists who felt that the country needed to fight the Cold War overseas and confront the Soviet Union in Eurasia.
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- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Richard Nixon
3 days ago · New York State Thruway Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway Map of New York with the Thruway mainline in red; other components of the Thruway system are in blue Route information Maintained by NYSTA Length 496.00 mi (798.23 km) Mainline only Existed June 24, 1954 (June 24, 1954) –present Component highways I-87 from The Bronx to Albany I-287 from Elmsford to Suffern I-90 from Albany to Ripley ...
3 days ago · Roosevelt’s three reelections (he was the only president to serve more than two terms), the succession of Harry S. Truman to the presidency on Roosevelt’s death in 1945, and Truman’s narrow election over New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 kept the Republicans out of the White House for two decades.
23 hours ago · He energized the New Deal coalition during the 1948 presidential election, despite a divided Democratic Party, and won a surprise victory against Republican Party nominee Thomas E. Dewey that secured his own presidential term.
1 day ago · The Dewey Beach Police Department received its first grant-funded electric truck June 26, and the second one is anticipated soon, said Chief Constance Speake. Speake applied for the Energize Delaware grant in September, and the organization awarded $146,000 in funding to enable the purchase of two Ford F-150 Lightning all-electric trucks.
