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From March 9 to June 1, 1948, voters of the Republican Party elected delegates to the 1948 Republican National Convention, in part to choose the party nominee for president in the 1948 United States presidential election. The 1948 Republican National Convention was held from June 21 to June 25, 1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1948. Incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman defeated heavily favored Republican New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and third-party candidates, becoming the third president to succeed to the presidency upon his predecessor's death and be elected to a full term.
The 1948 primaries set the record for the highest number of candidates in the history of the Republican Party, with 15 total; a record it held for nearly 70 years until 2016 surpassed it. Among them were repeat candidates Douglas MacArthur, Senator Robert Taft, Governor Earl Warren, Businessman Riley A. Bender of Illinois, and the previous ...
In 1948, the Republican and Democratic parties did something unthinkable in today's climate of ferocious political animosity: They not only held their national conventions in the same city but ...
Why Truman’s 1948 upset is no template for the 2024 U.S. presidential election, according to the expert who wrote the book on polling failure W. Joseph Campbell April 5, 2024 at 10:27 AM
The 1948 United States elections were held on November 2, 1948. The election took place during the beginning stages of the Cold War . Democratic incumbent President Harry S. Truman was elected to a full term in an upset , defeating Republican nominee New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey and two erstwhile Democrats.
The 1948 Republican National Convention was held at the Municipal Auditorium, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from June 21 to 25, 1948.. New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey had paved the way to win the Republican presidential nomination in the primary elections, where he had beaten former Minnesota Governor Harold E. Stassen and World War II General Douglas MacArthur.
1948 United States presidential election in Connecticut [1] Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote Count % Count % Republican: Thomas Edmund Dewey of New York: Earl Warren of California: 437,754: 49.55%: 8: 100.00% Democratic: Harry S. Truman of Missouri (incumbent) Alben William Barkley of Kentucky: 423,297 47.91% 0 0.00% ...