Thomas Dewey

(noun)

(1902 – 1971) the 47th Governor of New York (1943–1954). In 1944 and 1948, he was the Republican candidate for President, but lost both times. He led the liberal faction of the Republican Party, in which he fought conservative Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. Dewey was an advocate for the professional and business community of the Northeastern United States, which would later be called the "Eastern Establishment". This organization accepted the majority of New Deal social-welfare reforms enacted during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It consisted of internationalists who were in favor of the United Nations and the "Cold War" fight against communism and the Soviet Union.

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Examples of Thomas Dewey in the following topics:

  • The Election of 1948

    • Despite predictions that Republican candidate Thomas Dewey would win the 1948 election, incumbent Democrat Harry Truman won.
    • Roosevelt in 1945, successfully ran for election for a full term against Thomas E.
    • Dewey, the Republican nominee.
    • On September 9, nearly two months before election day, pollster Elmo Roper announced that "Thomas E.
    • Republican Thomas Dewey ran against President Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election.

  • Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election

    • His Republican opponent in 1944 was New York Governor Thomas E.
    • Dewey.
    • Dewey ran an energetic campaign, but as expected, Roosevelt prevailed.
    • In the election on November 7, 1944, Roosevelt scored a fairly comfortable victory over Dewey.
    • FDR defeated Thomas Dewey, Governor of Roosevelt's home state of New York, in the election of 1944.

  • The Year the Polls Elected Dewey

    • Truman, the Democratic nominee, successfully ran for election against Thomas E.
    • Dewey, the Republican nominee.
    • The Gallup, Roper, and Crossley polls all predicted a Dewey win.
    • Truman beat Republican challenger and Governor of New York Thomas E.
    • Dewey.

  • The Gallup Organization

    • Notable exceptions include the 1948 Thomas Dewey-Harry S.
    • Truman election, where nearly all pollsters predicted a Dewey victory.

  • The Election of 1952

    • When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, Eisenhower's managers, led by Thomas Dewey and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., accused Taft's leaders of unfairly denying delegate spots to Eisenhower supporters.
    • Lodge and Dewey proposed to evict the pro-Taft delegates in these states and replace them with pro-Eisenhower delegates.

  • The Gallup Poll

    • From 1936 to 2008, Gallup correctly predicted the winner of each election--with the notable exceptions of the 1948 Thomas Dewey-Harry S.
    • Truman election, when nearly all pollsters predicted a Dewey victory, and the 1976 election, when they inaccurately projected a slim victory by Gerald Ford over Jimmy Carter.

  • Partisan Cooperation and Conflict

    • During the 1948 election Truman campaigned as much against the "Do Nothing Congress" as against his formal opponent, Thomas Dewey.

  • Modern Republicanism

    • In 1952, a small group of Republicans drafted an internationalist allied with Thomas Dewey as a GOP candidate in order to challenge Robert A.

  • Roosevelt's Fourth Term

    • His Republican opponent was New York Governor Thomas E.
    • Dewey.
    • Dewey ran an energetic campaign, but as expected, Roosevelt prevailed.
    • Roosevelt and Truman won by a comfortable margin, defeating Dewey and his running mate John W.

  • Sociology and Other Social Sciences

    • This unity of science as descriptive remained, for example, in the time of Thomas Hobbes, who argued that deductive reasoning from axioms created a scientific framework.
    • One of the most persuasive advocates for the view of scientific treatment of philosophy is John Dewey (1859-1952).