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Nov 16, 2015 · Henry Wallace, who died 50 years ago this week (November, 18 1965), was one of the most fascinating and controversial political figures in American history. One of the great "what if?" questions of the 20th century is how America might have been different if Wallace, rather than Harry Truman, had succeeded Franklin Roosevelt in the White House.
Progressive Party, (1948), in the United States, a dissident political faction founded in 1947 by Henry A. Wallace, who had broken with the Democratic administration of President Harry S. Truman. Unlike the Progressive organizations of 1912 and 1924, Wallace’s party campaigned on changes in foreign
Henry A. Wallace. They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. Henry A. Wallace. It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. Henry A. Wallace.
Jan 9, 2024 · Henry A. Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American economist and politician. He was the thirty-third vice president of the United States (1941–45), the eleventh secretary of agriculture (1933–40), and the tenth secretary of commerce (1945–46). In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the ...
Jul 13, 2016 · Henry A. Wallace, a former vice-president of the United States and Cabinet member, assumed the leadership of this movement. Because the political conditions of the emerging Cold War in 1948 barred ...
Feb 22, 2019 · Henry A. Wallace was Vice President during Roosevelt’s third term and Secretary of Commerce for a short period during his fourth term. After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Roosevelt set up the Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) by Executive Order to ensure that the United States would have adequate supplies of war materials. 1 He appointed Wallace to chair it and Wallace ...
Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As FDR’s third-term vice president, and a hero to many progressives, he lost his ...
