Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24th 1902 - March 16th 1971) is a American Politician, governor of the State of New York of 1943 to 1955. He was the republican candidate with the presidential elections of 1944 and 1948, qu ' he lost. He was the first candidate born at the 20th century.

Youth, studies and beginning of career

Born and raised with Owosso (Michigan), his/her father was the editor of the local newspaper. He leaves graduate the University of Michigan in 1923 and right of Columbia Law School of New York in 1925. During the Years 1930, he was the lawyer defender of the interests of the town of New York in the criminal trials: it helped with the judgment of Lucky Luciano. In 1939, it continued the leader Nazi states-unien Fritz Kuhn.

It failed in 1938 being elected governor of New York, but succeeds in 1942 and was re-elected in 1946 and 1950. He was regarded as an honest and effective governor. He reduced the taxes, doubled the State aid for education, increased the wages of the civils servant of the State, and reduced the deficit of the State of more than 100 million dollars. He made vote a law which interdisit racial discrimination at the time of recruitment and promulgated the laws off creating the State University New York .

The candidate with the presidency

For the presidential election of 1940, Dewey was demolishes during the primary educations of the Republican party by Wendell Willkie which was demolishes by the president Roosevelt. Dewey, republican candidate, were beaten by same Roosevelt in 1944. But its countryside succeeds in obtaining more voice than the other republican candidates since Herbert Hoover in 1928.

The celebrity of Thomas Dewey was caused by an anecdote at the time of the presidential election of 1948 vis-a-vis the president Harry Truman: the newspaper Chicago Daily Tribune prematurely titrated the night of the vote “ DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN ” (Dewey beat Truman). In fact, Truman had carried it in spite of a popularity which seemed declined. The irony wants that Dewey was the first candidate with presidential to have a team charged to collect the results of the votes.

At the time of this countryside, Dewey did not take any risk to benefit from the problems of Truman. It threaded flatnesses, like: “ You know that your future is still ahead off you ” (You know that your future is still in front of you). A leading article of the Louisville Courier-Newspaper summarized this countryside as follows:

“ No presidential future candidate in the will Be so inept that furnace off his major speeches edge Be boiled down to thesis historic furnace sentences: Agriculture is important. Our rivers are full off fish. You boat cuts freedom without liberty. Future Our dregs ahead. ”

(In the future, no candidate with presidential will be sufficiently inept so that its principal speeches can be summarized in these four historical sentences: agriculture is important. Our rivers are full of fish. You cannot be free without freedom. Our future is in front of us).

If Dewey were criticized for its aggressiveness in 1944, it had succeeded in containing it in 1948.

Of its side, Truman bound its adversary to Congress republican that it qualified of “ C-nothing Congress ” (the Congress which does not do anything), against which the president had battled during his mandate. Dewey was however not so preserving only the republican members of the federal assembly. For example, contrary to his competitor with the primary educations, the senator Robert Taft, Dewey were not an isolationist: at the beginning of the Cold war, it supported the Marshall plan, the assistance with the Greece, the recognition of the State of Israel and the airlift against the Blocus of Berlin.

Reprocess

It was not represented in 1952 and helped Dwight Eisenhower which was elected president. It was withdrawn from the policy at the end of its third mandate of governor of New York and turned over to the practice of the law. He died of a Heart attack the March 16th 1971.

Homages

In 1937, the draftsman Al Taliaferro named one of the nephews of Donald Duck (Riri, Fifi and Loulou in French) according to the governor Dewey , (two others being called “Huey” in homage to the democratic governor of Louisiana Huey Pierce Long, and “Louie” in homage to the trumpet player Louis Armstrong).

In 1964, the legislative assembly of the state of New York officially baptized in her honor a Autoroute with toll connecting Buffalo to the town of New York, even if the name Thomas E. Dewey Thruway is little usually used.

External bonds

• Biography (in English)
• Another biography (in English)
• Site of the '' Political Graveyard ''

Sources

• files of Thomas E. Dewey, University of Rochester

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