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The 1944 New York state election was held on November 7, 1944, to elect a judge [1] of the New York Court of Appeals and a U.S. senator, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.
The 1944 presidential election was the last time until 2016 in which both major party candidates declared New York as their home state. Along with his first run for governor in 1938, the 1944 presidential election marked the only time that Dewey lost a statewide vote in New York.
New York state is one the of initial 13 states of America, but due to a deadlock in the state legislature, it did not join the first presidential election in 1788–89. [1] [2] However, apart from this election, New York State has participated in all 58 other elections in U.S. history.
This is the electoral history of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served as the 32nd president of the United States (1933–1945) and the 44th governor of New York (1929–1932). A member of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt was first elected to the New York State Senate in 1910, representing the 26th district.
As 1944 began, the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 nominee, Senator Robert A. Taft from Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied ...
1944 United States elections; 1944 United States presidential election; United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1944; 1944 Louisiana gubernatorial election; 1944 Maine gubernatorial election; 1944 Minnesota gubernatorial election; 1944 New York state election; United States House of Representatives elections in South ...
The United States Senate election of 1944 in New York was held on November 8, 1944. Incumbent Democratic Senator Robert F. Wagner was re-elected to a fourth term over Republican Thomas J. Curran. Wagner would not complete the term, resigning in June 1949 due to ill health.
The results of elections in the state of New York have tended to be more Democratic-leaning than in most of the United States, with in recent decades a solid majority of Democratic voters, concentrated in New York City and some of its suburbs, including Westchester County, Rockland County and Long Island's Nassau county, and in the cities of ...