The first edition of the publication read “Dewey Defeats Truman,” based solely on projections that had Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey prematurely named the 33rd President of the United ...

Allen, who laughingly took himself out of the 1948 presidential race, made some prophecies: “Dewey will beat Taft and Vandenberg for the privilege of trying to beat Truman; it won’t be easy ...

Ok, we all know that Harry S. Truman beat Thomas E. Dewey in 1948. But the Chicago Daily Tribune's headline, “Dewey Defeats Truman” pictured in photo being held by Mr. Truman may be the best known ...

Governor Thomas E. Dewey conceded today that President Truman had been elected in the closest presidential race in 32 years.

NEW YORK, November 3, 1948 (UP) - At the time Governor Dewey conceded, he was trailing by 115 electoral votes. Truman had won or was leading in 28 states with 304 electoral votes. Dewey had won or ...

Description In what was considered a major upset in the 1948 presidential election, Democratic President Harry Truman defeated Republican New York Governor Thomas Dewey and third-party candidates ...

Like Dewey, Harris is running a light-on-details campaign, preferring to make the race a referendum about an unpopular opponent. Like Dewey, Harris stands accused of flip-flopping on issues.

Before the convention, his political advisers had put Tom Dewey just behind Arthur Vandenberg in their rating of candidates hardest for Harry Truman to beat.

Tom Dewey's job, in the week before the convention, was to make sure the delegates already pledged to him stuck tight to the bargain—and then to beat the bushes for more delegates.Setting ...

While broad and superficial similarities may be detected between Biden-Trump in 2024 and Truman-Dewey in 1948, the two cases are in fact quite dissimilar.