He was unpopular throughout much of his first term, and the mid-term elections in 1946 were a disaster. The fringe of the Democratic Party, led by Henry Wallace, split, as they angry over Truman's foreign policy and Wallace launched his own campaign. Then during the Democratic National Convention, the large number of (racist) Southern Democratics, nicknamed the "Dixiecrats", walked out after Northern Democrats sucessfully managed to get the party to support Civil Rights. Their leader, Sen. Strom Thurmond, also launched a campaign, hoping to take away votes from the solidly Democratic South. Together, Thurmond and Wallace took 5% of the vote, while Truman won 5% more of the votes than Dewey.
All polls and pundits had predicted that Truman would lose; the economy and domestic politics had been in a mess throughout his presidency. By the time election day came, it seemed no-one believed Truman could win apart from Truman himself. Even his wife thought he would lose, yet he continue to tell everyone he met he knew he could win.
Thomas E. Dewey
President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order integrating the armed services in 1948 President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order integrating the armed services in 1948.
The 33rd President of the United States was Harry S. Truman from April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953 Harry S. Truman was the 33rd US President. He became President upon the death of President Roosevelt because Truman was serving at the time as Vice President. Truman later ran for the office in 1948. He was an underdog to win the presidency in that election year to the Republican Governor of the State of New York. Truman was famous for the quote of "The buck stops here".
In 1948, Republican Thomas Dewey was projected as the winner. The Chicago Daily Tribune famously published a "Dewey wins" headline. There's a famous picture of the actual winner, Harry Truman, holding up that newspaper while celebrating his victory.
no one. 1947 was not an election year. Haeey Truman was elected in 1948 and was president in 1947.
Harry S. Truman
Harry Truman won the 1948 presidential election defeating Thomas Dewey. In the 1948 presidential election Harry Truman received 303 electoral votes and Thomas Dewey received 189 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Truman 24,179,345 and Dewey 21,991,291. Truman's victory was one of the greatest election upsets in American history. Virtually every prediction indicated Dewey would defeat Truman.
Franklin D. Roosevelt beat Thomas E. Dewey in the 1944 election, and Harry S Truman beat him in the 1948 election.
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Harry S. Truman
Harry Truman was the man.
Yes. Although the newspaper was wrong. Dwight D. Eisenhower became president after that in 1952
Thomas Dewey, Republican from New York lost to Truman in the 1948 presidential election. Strom Thurman from SC also won electoral votes as a third candidate.
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Harry Truman defeated Dewey in 1948. See attached link for the story behind the famous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman." Dewey also came in second to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1944 election.
In 1948, President Harry S. Truman used an executive order to integrate the