Thomas Dewey

(noun)

(1902 – 1971) the 47th Governor of New York (1943–1954). In 1944 and 1948, he was the Republican candidate for President, but lost both times. He led the liberal faction of the Republican Party, in which he fought conservative Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. Dewey was an advocate for the professional and business community of the Northeastern United States, which would later be called the "Eastern Establishment". This organization accepted the majority of New Deal social-welfare reforms enacted during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It consisted of internationalists who were in favor of the United Nations and the "Cold War" fight against communism and the Soviet Union.

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  • The Election of 1948

    • Despite predictions that Republican candidate Thomas Dewey would win the 1948 election, incumbent Democrat Harry Truman won.
    • Roosevelt in 1945, successfully ran for election for a full term against Thomas E.
    • Dewey, the Republican nominee.
    • On September 9, nearly two months before election day, pollster Elmo Roper announced that "Thomas E.
    • Republican Thomas Dewey ran against President Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election.

  • Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election

    • His Republican opponent in 1944 was New York Governor Thomas E.
    • Dewey.
    • Dewey ran an energetic campaign, but as expected, Roosevelt prevailed.
    • In the election on November 7, 1944, Roosevelt scored a fairly comfortable victory over Dewey.
    • FDR defeated Thomas Dewey, Governor of Roosevelt's home state of New York, in the election of 1944.

  • The Election of 1952

    • When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, Eisenhower's managers, led by Thomas Dewey and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., accused Taft's leaders of unfairly denying delegate spots to Eisenhower supporters.
    • Lodge and Dewey proposed to evict the pro-Taft delegates in these states and replace them with pro-Eisenhower delegates.

  • Partisan Cooperation and Conflict

    • During the 1948 election Truman campaigned as much against the "Do Nothing Congress" as against his formal opponent, Thomas Dewey.

  • Modern Republicanism

    • In 1952, a small group of Republicans drafted an internationalist allied with Thomas Dewey as a GOP candidate in order to challenge Robert A.

  • Roosevelt's Fourth Term

    • His Republican opponent was New York Governor Thomas E.
    • Dewey.
    • Dewey ran an energetic campaign, but as expected, Roosevelt prevailed.
    • Roosevelt and Truman won by a comfortable margin, defeating Dewey and his running mate John W.

  • Technological Advancement

    • The first successful mechanical support of left ventricular function was performed on July 3, 1952 by Forest Dewey Dodrill using a machine, the Dodrill-GMR co-developed with General Motors.
    • The first successful open heart procedure on a human utilizing the heart lung machine was performed by John Gibbon on May 6, 1953 at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

  • Social Justice

    • Early progressive thinkers such as John Dewey and Lester Ward placed a universal and comprehensive system of education at the top of the progressive agenda, reasoning that if a democracy was to be successful, its leaders, the general public, needed education .
    • This is John Dewey at the University of Chicago in 1902.

  • The Cuban War of Independence

    • A week after the declaration of war, Commodore George Dewey of the six-warship Asiatic Squadron, then based at Hong Kong, steamed his fleet to the Philippines.
    • Chief among them were Commodore Dewey and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, who had resigned as assistant secretary of the navy to lead his volunteer regiment, the "Rough Riders," to service in Cuba.

  • The American Enlightenment

    • Politically, the age is distinguished by an emphasis on liberty, democracy, republicanism, and religious tolerance—culminating in the writings of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and the drafting of the United States Declaration of Independence.
    • Deism greatly influenced intellectuals and several noteworthy 18th-century Americans such as John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson.
    • The most articulate exponent was Thomas Paine, whose The Age of Reason was written in France in the early 1790s and reached America soon thereafter.
    • Thomas Paine's Common Sense, published at the outset of the American Revolution, drew heavily on the theories of Locke and is largely considered one of the most virulent attacks on political despotism.
    • The culmination of these enlightenment ideas occurred with Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, in which he declared: