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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1969.80.1372
Thomas E. Dewey
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1969.80.1372

Thomas E. Dewey

American, 1902 - 1971
District Attorney of New York (1938-1941)
Governor of New York (1943-1946)
Governor of New York (1947-1950)
Governor of New York (1951-1954)
Republican Presidential Nominee (1944)
Republican Presidential Nominee (1948)

Thomas Dewey served three terms as the Governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. Dewey was elected as the Republican presidential nominee in 1944 and 1945. He lost both times to Democratic nominated candidates Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman respectively.
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