Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, 1944

California Governor John W. Bricker was chosen as the Republican nominee for vice president in 1944.

This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1944 presidential election. At the start of the 1944 Republican National Convention, New York Governor Thomas Dewey seemed like the likely presidential nominee, but his nomination was not assured due to strong support for Ohio Governor John W. Bricker and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen.[1] Though Dewey wanted California Governor Earl Warren as his running mate, Warren was convinced that Franklin Roosevelt would win re-election, and refused to be anyone's running mate.[2] Some Republicans wanted to ask Democratic Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia to be the Republican running mate in order to pursue the Southern vote, but this possibility was not seriously pursued.[1] Dewey and his advisers instead worked out a deal in which Bricker's delegates voted for Dewey in the presidential ballot, and Dewey in return chose Bricker as his running mate.[1] The Dewey-Bricker ticket, which balanced the moderate Northeastern and conservative Midwestern wings of the party, was ratified by the Republican convention.[1] The ticket lost the 1944 presidential election to the ticket of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

Potential running mates

Finalists

Others

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Jordan, David M. (2011). FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944. Indiana University Press. pp. 115–118. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Newton, Jim. Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made. Penguin. p. 182. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Sigelman, Lee; Wahlbeck, Paul (December 1997). "The "Veepstakes": Strategic Choice in Presidential Running Mate Selection". The American Political Science Review 91 (4): 858. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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