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Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive and the 1940 Republican nominee for president.
Apr 16, 2024 · Wendell Willkie was a U.S. Republican presidential candidate in 1940 who tried unsuccessfully to unseat President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He subsequently became identified with his famous “One World” concept of international cooperation. Willkie earned his law degree from Indiana University in 1916.
Sep 14, 2018 · Late in World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt sharply rebuked an aide for making a derogatory quip about Wendell Willkie, Roosevelt’s Republican challenger in the 1940 election.
The rush of volunteers and the determination of Willkie Club founders ended that plan, sent Wendell Willkie pounding around the U. S., making speeches, meeting the delegates from 25 States.
Mar 21, 2016 · Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie staked everything on Wisconsin in 1944. Primaries offered candidates who lacked the backing of party leadership a chance to demonstrate their support among ordinary people.
Feb 27, 2019 · The businessman candidate was Wendell Willkie, the year was 1940, and the country faced multiple crises as President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought an unprecedented third term. Republicans had been demolished in Roosevelt’s previous two runs.
Aug 29, 2015 · Wendell Willkie, who was caught in the accelerating crosswinds of world war, had no such advantage, and would no doubt be astonished to see how the chief executive card is now being...
5 days ago · Little remembered today, Wendell Willkie was one of his era's best-known figures. As president of Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, the nation's largest electric utility holding company, he battled the New Deal Tennessee Valley Authority in congressional hearings and in the courts, gaining a national reputation as the premier spokesman for the private electric power industry.
Wendell Willkie was a striving American who began life in a small Midwestern town. He believed — as Americans congenitally must — in growth, development, “progress.”
Wendell Willkie was born in Elwood, Indiana, on February 18, 1892. The Republican party tapped Willkie, a lawyer and utilities executive, to run against FDR in 1940, even though Willkie was a former Democrat.
