The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term. This would be the last time in which an incumbent Democratic president would win re-election after serving a full term in office.
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The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term. This would be the last time in which an incumbent Democratic president would win re-election after serving a full term in office. The election was closer than Roosevelt’s other presidential campaigns, but Roosevelt still won by a comfortable margin in the popular vote and by a wide margin inthe Electoral College. Roosevelt died less than three months into his fourth term and was succeeded by Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri. The fight over the vice-presidential nomination proved to be consequential; Roosevelt died in April 1945, and Truman instead of Wallace became the nation’s thirty-third President. In 1944, the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party’s 1940 nominee, and Harold Stassen, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of war. General Douglas MacArthur, the former Governor of Minnesota, then served as a commander in eastern Asia, was the front-runner for the Allied nomination.
In 1940, the GOP nominee was Senator Robert A. Taft from Ohio, the leader of the party’s conservatives, and he defeated conservative Governor John W. Bricker at the 1944 Republican National Convention. In 1946, the Republican nominee was Robert A Taft, the senator from Ohio. In 1948, the Democrats nominated Senator Harry F. Byrd from Virginia and he won the election on the second ballot. In 1952, the Republicans nominated Representative Everett Dirksen from Illinois and he was elected to a second term. In 1956, the Democratic nominee was Representative Robert H. Hildebrandt from South Dakota, who served as the chairman of a Senate wartime committee investigating fraud and inefficiency in the war program. In 1960, the Democrat nominee was Senator Harry F.-Byrd from Virginia, who also served as chairman of the Senate committee. In 1964, the winner of the Democratic presidential nomination was Senator Harry H. Byrd of Virginia. In 1968, the election was held during World War II, and the Republican candidate was Senator Douglas MacArthur of Illinois. In 1980, the President of the United States, George H.W. Bush, won a third term.
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