Wendell Lewis Willkie was an American lawyer, corporate executive, and the 1940 Republican nominee for President of the United States. He served in World War I but was not sent to France until the final days of the war, and saw no action. Willkie is remembered for giving Roosevelt vital political assistance in 1940, which allowed the president to aid Britain in its time of crisis. He ran for the Republican nomination in 1944, but bowed out after a disastrous showing in the Wisconsin primary in April.
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Wendell Lewis Willkie was an American lawyer, corporate executive, and the 1940 Republican nominee for President of the United States. He served in World War I but was not sent to France until the final days of the war, and saw no action. Willkie is remembered for giving Roosevelt vital political assistance in 1940, which allowed the president to aid Britain in its time of crisis. After the election, Willkie made two wartime foreign trips as Roosevelt’s informal envoy, and as nominal leader of the Republican Party gave the president his full support. He ran for the Republican nomination in 1944, but bowed out after a disastrous showing in the Wisconsin primary in April. He and Roosevelt discussed the possibility of forming a liberal political party, but Willkie died in October 1944 before the idea could bear fruit. He was known from childhood by his middle name. Although given the first name Lewis, Willkies was known by his parents as Willkie. He died of lung cancer at the age of 75. He is buried in Mount Vernon, Indiana. He had a son, Robert, who was a successful businessman and philanthropist. He also had a daughter, Barbara, who became a well-known author and author. She died of cancer at age 80. She was buried at the Mount Vernon Cemetery in Indiana, where she was buried with her husband, Robert Willkie, and their three children. She is survived by her husband and two sons, Robert and Robert Jr., and a daughter-in-law, Barbara Willkie-Brockway, who is also a well known author and poet.
He leaves behind a wife and six children, including two sons who went on to serve in the U.S. military. He never had a great deal of success in politics, but he was a strong supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Democratic Party. His father was born in Germany, and his mother was one of the first women admitted to the Indiana bar. His grandparents were involved in the unsuccessful 1848 revolutions in Germany. The Trisches initially settled in Kansas Territory but, as they were abolitionists, moved to Indiana after the territory was opened to slavery in the mid-1850s. In 1900, he stayed overnight at the home of William McKinley, the Democratic candidate for president, and became the first political boy to seek office for the Democratic party. By the time Willkie reached age 14 and enrolled in high school, he was inspired to shine in an attempt to correct his parents’ slight stoop, and they sent him to Culver Military Academy for a summer to correct him. In 1929, he accepted a job in New York City as counsel for Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, a utility holding company. In 1933, he became corporate president of C&S. He fought against the TVA before Congress, in the courts, and before the public, and gained public esteem. He changed his party registration to Republican in late 1939. He did not run in the 1940 presidential primaries, but positioned himself as an acceptable choice for a deadlocked convention. He sought backing from uncommitted delegates.
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