1948 United States presidential election
The 1948 United States presidential election happened on November 2, 1948. This election was between Harry S. Truman (president at that time) and Thomas E. Dewey (the Governor of New York). Truman won by 303 electoral votes. Dewey got 189 electoral votes. Thurmond got 39 electoral votes including a faithless elector in Tennessee.
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 Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Truman/Barkley; Red denotes those won by Dewey/Warren; Orange denotes those won by Thurmond/Wright (including a faithless elector in Tennessee). Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This election is best known as an upset because of the election results. Predictions showed that Dewey would beat Truman at the polls. For example, a newspaper in Chicago printed an issue in advance which said that Dewey had won the election. However, Truman won the election instead.
Candidates
Republican Party
Republican candidates:
- Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York
- Robert Taft, Senator from Ohio
- Harold Stassen, former governor of Minnesota
- Arthur H. Vandenberg, President pro tempore of the senate from Michigan
- Earl Warren, governor of California
- Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army from New York
Candidates gallery
Democratic Party
Democratic candidates:
- Harry S. Truman, President of the United States from Missouri
- Richard Brevard Russell, U.S. senator from Georgia
1948 United States Presidential Election Media
Democratic Party (United States)
Harry S. Truman, President of the USA in 1945.
Portrait of Vice-President Alben Barkley
Republican Party (United States)
Henry Agard Wallace, 1888–1965, bust portrait, facing left
Glen H. Taylor
Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina
GOVERNOR FIELDING L. WRIGHT, States' Rights Candidate for VICE-PRESIDENT of the United States, 1948
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References
- ↑ "Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections". The American Presidency Project. UC Santa Barbara.
Other websites
- 1948 popular vote by counties
- 1948 State-by-state Popular vote Archived 2008-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
- How close was the 1948 election? Archived 2012-08-25 at the Wayback Machine – Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Booknotes interview with Zachary Karabell on The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election, June 4, 2000.[dead link]