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2 days ago · Truman had been elected vice president in the 1944 election, and succeeded to the presidency in April 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He won his party's nomination at the 1948 Democratic National Convention only after defeating attempts to drop him from the ticket.
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May 23, 2024 · Hubert Humphrey, 38th vice president of the United States (1965–69) in the Democratic administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Democratic presidential candidate in 1968. A liberal leader in the U.S. Senate (1949–65; 1971–78), he built his political base on a Democrat–Farmer-Labor coalition.
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With the Popular Front agreement demanding the nomination of a Socialist Workers politician for the vice presidency, 64-year-old Washington Governor Harry E. B. Ault stands as the candidate of the more radical side of the electoral alliance.
1 day ago · Conspiracy thinking about autism drives anti-vaxxer presidential candidate RFK Jr.’s pick for vice president. ... the outcome of a national election to a conspiratorial crescendo: “I wish I ...
May 15, 2024 · Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978.
May 25, 2024 · by Clifford Berryman, October 19, 1948. U.S. Senate Collection, Center for Legislative Archives. President Harry S. Truman, the Democratic presidential nominee in the election of 1948, was widely forecast to lose by a large margin to Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey.
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May 22, 2024 · In the 1948 presidential election, Southern Democrats walked out of the Democratic National Convention to protest the party’s decision to embrace a civil rights platform. These defectors then met in Birmingham, Alabama, and formed their own political party named the States Rights Democratic Party, although over time they would more commonly ...
