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Republic Canidate in 1940

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11y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Wendell L. Willkie (1892 - 1944), lawyer and CEO of the Southern Corporation, a major electrical generation and distribution company still in existence.

FDR received 27 million votes to Willkie's 22 million, but the election was even more one-sided in the Electoral College - Roosevelt's 449 electoral votes handily trounced Willkie's 82 electoral votes.

Trivia Bonus: Willkie's running mate was Charles L. McNary (1874 -1944), a Senator from Washington state, lawyer, Senate Minority Leader from 1933 to his death in 1944.

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