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	Thomas Dewey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dewey started running for the 1940 Republican nomination in 1939 but he would lose it to Wendell Willkie, who went on to be defeated in the general election.
		Dewey's position evolved during the 1940s and he was generally considered an internationalist and classed with the moderates in later years.
		Dewey sought and won the Republican nomination in 1944 but was defeated in the 1944 presidential election by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the popular wartime leader.
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		Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 - March 16, 1971), born in Owosso, Michigan, was the Governor of New York (1943 - 1955) and the Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency intwo elections (1944 and 1948), losing both times.
		Dewey was also a New York City prosecutor during the 1930s, and in 1936, he helped in the conviction of LuckyLuciano.
		In 1939 Dewey prosecuted American Nazi leader Fritz Kuhn for embezzlement, thereby crippling Kuhn's organization.Mobster Dutch Schultz was reportedly killed because he was planning toassassinate Dewey, which his compatriots felt would draw too much unwanted law enforcement attention to their operations.
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	Thomas E. Dewey
		Dewey was an associate of the MacNamara and Seymour law firm from 1927 to 1931.
		Nevertheless, Dewey succeeded in convicting him on 90 counts of prostitution, and in 1936, Luciano was sent to prison for 30 to 50 years.
		Dewey was a leader of the eastern Republicans at the 1952 national convention and played a key role in the nomination of General Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Senator Richard M. Nixon for vice president.
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	Thomas Dewey
		Thomas E. Dewey was a knight in shining armor, the fearless gangbuster who almost took up residence in the White House.
		It was Dewey's crimefighting prowess that moved him along politically - to the governorship of New York and the Republican candidacy for president in 1944 and 1948.
		In Dewey's case this was not clear, although some in the underworld view his sending Louis Lepke to the electric chair in 1944 as having a link with the alleged payoff from the mob.
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	Thomas E. Dewey and His Times
		Thomas E. Dewey, the epitome of Manhattan Avenue politics to conservative Republicans, was himself born and bred further west than the venerable Robert Taft himself.
		Dewey's rapid ascent through the law profession was abetted by two factors: his labors on behalf of New York City's struggling Republican party, and the patronage of George Z. Medalie, who would become Dewey's legal and political rabbi.
		Thomas E. Dewey, unfortunately, is probably best remembered by most Americans as the little fellow who lost the 1948 Presidential election to Harry S. Truman in one of the greatest upsets in American history.
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		Dewey started running for the 1940 Republican nomination in 1939 but he would lose it to Wendell Wilkie, who went on to be defeated in the general election.
		Dewey sought and won the Republican nomination in 1944 but was, like Wilkie, defeated in the 1944 presidential election by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the popular wartime leader.
		Dewey did not stand for election in 1952 and instead helped Dwight Eisenhower win the Republican Party's presidential nomination and the subsequent election.
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	Encyclopedia: Thomas E. Dewey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dutch Schultz was reportedly killed because he was planning to assassinate Dewey, which his compatriots felt would draw too much unwanted law enforcement attention to their operations.
		Dewey was not as Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies.
		Ohio and rival for the nomination in 1948, Dewey was no longer an Isolationism is a diplomatic policy whereby a nation seeks to avoid alliances with other nations.
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	Dewey, Thomas E. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dewey, Thomas E. Dewey, Thomas E. THOMAS EDMUND DEWEY (b.
		Dewey graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923 and received his law degree from Columbia University in 1925.
		As Republican nominee for president in 1944, Dewey was neither expected nor able to overcome the enormous wartime prestige of the incumbent, President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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	Thomas E. Dewey
		Although Dewey had put away Lucky Luciano for tax evasion and more, he also approved Luciano's transfer to a low security prison in 1942 and eventual parole and deportation to Italy in 1946, because Lucky had helped the U.S. government federal investigators protect the New York City docks with Lucky's mob influence.
		Dewey was a leading supporter of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and played a major role in securing the Republican presidential nomination for him.
		In retrospect, one has to wonder if Thomas E. Dewey would have become President in 1944, would he have dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan as Harry Truman did on Aug. 6, 1945, which is undoubtably one of the most significant events in U.S. History.
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	History Channel - Speeches - Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential candidate: Speaks on election eve
		Dewey had first won national acclaim as an adversary of organized crime while district attorney of New York, and in 1942, was elected governor of New York.
		However, Dewey was reelected New York governor in 1946, and in 1948, he again ran for the presidency on the Republican ticket.
		Dewey was reelected to a third term as governor in 1950, and at the completion of his term in 1955, he resumed his private law practice.
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	Thomas Edmund Dewey - People of Michigan
		Dewey won election as county district attorney in 1937, gaining national prominence as a vigorous prosecutor of organized crime and racketeering.
		Then in 1948, Dewey was again nominated to run for president, and it looked like he would be victorious, but when the votes were tallied, he was upset by Democrat Harry S. Truman.
		Dewey never ran for president again, but he did work diligently to help General Dwight D. Eisenhower secure the Republication nomination for president at the 1952 convention.
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		Let's Do Dewey Explains how books are assigned their call numbers, and gives a brief account of the life of Melville Dewey.
		Imperialism Is Easy, by John Dewey Essay by John Dewey published in The New Republic (March 23, 1927), critical of U.S. involvement in Mexico.
		Center for Dewey Studies The Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
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	\| Book Review \| Law and History Review, 17.1 \| The History Cooperative
		Dewey had more than sixty police officers at his disposal and a staff that included "twenty assistants, ten investigators, four process servers, four clerks, two grand jury reporters, nineteen stenographers, two telephone operators, and four messengers" (86).
		Dewey also had a winning way with the media: newsreels, newspapers, and feature films lionized him as the nation's number-one "racket buster." Building upon this reputation and the support of his Republican sponsors, Dewey pursued a successful political career as a New York DA, governor, and two-time Republican presidential nominee.
		She applauds Dewey, Lehman, and La Guardia as effective modernizers who made the public see that Tammany was a corrupt relic of local governance and that "government could be run more effectively and cheaply without machine politics" (256).
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	When Dewey Took Down the Dutchman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas E. Dewey earned a reputation as a hard-hitting New York prosecutor who challenged organized crime in the 1930s.
		One of Dewey's landmark cases was the prosecution of bootlegger Irving Wexler, a.k.a.
		Dewey put together a crack team of lawyers, investigators, accountants, stenographers, and support staff, a fiercely loyal group that shared the chief's willingness to work all hours of the day and night.
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		Many people remember the hubris of Republicans in the fall of 1948 when they convinced, or thought they convinced, everyone that Thomas E. Dewey, the governor of New York, would be the next president of the United States.
		Dewey to invite her son back to his hometown, offering to hold a parade in his honor as well as to create a Dewey Walk along the riverbank.
		The Walk would be a permanent exhibit of the achievements of Dewey’s life, including his years as district attorney and governor, soft-pedaling the fact that most of his major activities took place far from his hometown.
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	Thomas Dewey
		Thomas Dewey was born in Owosso, Michigan, on March 24, 1902.
		Dewey kept his promise by setting in place reforms, including the first statewide civil rights legislation in the nation, and an increase in aid to the New York State Education Department.
		Dewey received the Republican nomination again in 1948 to run against Harry Truman after he defeated Harold Stassen in the Oregon presidential primary by attacking Stassen's proposal to outlaw the Communist party.
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	Thomas E. Dewey
		Thomas Edmund Dewey was born on March 24, 1902, in Owosso, Michigan as the son of the local newspaper publisher.
		Although Dewey was a Republican, Herbert H. Lehman, Democratic governor of New York, appointed him special prosecutor to root out racketeering in 1935.
		Dewey died on March 16, 1971, in Bal Harbour, Florida.
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	Thomas E. Dewey's Biography
		The Dewey Graduate Library was named for Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971), three term Republican governor of New York (1943-55) and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for president in 1944 and 1948.
		Governor Dewey also strengthened the public library system in New York by recommending increased aid to public libraries and by linking this aid to the development of regional interlibrary loan systems.
		Dewey was born in Owosso, Michigan and was a graduate of the University of Michigan (1923) and Columbia University Law School (1925).
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	Encyclopedia: Thomas Dewey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture.
		Huey, Dewey, and Louie can usually be told apart by the colors of their clothing: red, blue, green, respectively Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck are fictional characters of the Scrooge McDuck universe, Donald Ducks three almost identical nephews.
		The New York State Thruway (officially the Thomas E. Dewey Thruway) is a limited-access toll highway in the U.S. state of New York.
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	The Nation, 05/20/1944 - Thomas E. Dewey by Stone, I. F. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dewey might be Alfred Landon, unalterably opposed to the New Deal, four square against its threat to the American way of life, but in agreement with its basic principles, though he thinks they are poorly administered.
		...Dewey has been called "a boy scout," and he is one in the sense that he sees the problems of our society purely in the obvious and elementary terms of personal morality...
		...Dewey was forced to take the investigation over to protect his party, but the man he chose as special prosecutor, Hiram C. Todd, is forceful and independent, and there will be difficulty in keeping the investigation within safe bounds...
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	Thomas Dewey
		In 1933 Dewey he was appointed as the attorney of the southern district of New York.
		Fiorello La Guardia, the new mayor of New York, instructed Dewey to investigate Dutch Schultz, a man he believed was behind a large amount of crime in the city.
		In 1948 Dewey was once again the Republican Party parliamentary candidate and was expected to defeat the Democratic Party candidate, Harry Truman.
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	Dewey, Thomas E. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Dewey, Thomas E. vigorous U.S. prosecuting attorney whose successful racket-busting career won him three terms as governor of New York (1943–55).
		Roosevelt soundly defeated Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York in the 1944 election, but his margin of victory was smaller than it had been previously.
		Stassen, Harold E. Although he held several prominent political positions during his lifetime, Harold E. Stassen is probably most associated with the one he never held—the United States presidency.
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		There was the way he had his press secretary announce his candidacy, as if — as Thomas Mallon writes in "Dewey Defeats Truman," his new historical novel — "it was an afternoon appointment." And as disappointing as Dewey could seem from afar, he was even worse in person.
		Instead, Mallon keeps his attention relentlessly focused on the residents of Dewey's hometown in Owosso, Michigan, in the months before the election, particularly on a love triangle between a young bookstore clerk (and budding writer) named Anne Macmurray and her two suitors: Jack, a driven UAW organizer, and Peter, a swaggering young Republican politician.
		Thomas Mallon is an estimable writer and critic; his regular essays in GQ are tart and savvy, and his last novel, "Henry and Clara," was praised by none other than John Updike as one of the best books of 1995.
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	Thomas Dewey : Thomas E. Dewey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He gained unwelcome notoriety in the 1948 election due to miscalculations by pollsters and the press, which projected his safe victory in that election.
		The Chicago Daily Tribune had gone so far as to print "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" as its post-election headline, though the election would actually be won by Harry S Truman.
		Dewey was also a prosecutor during the 1930s, and in 1936, he helped in the conviction of Lucky Luciano.
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	Murder, Inc.COM - Thomas E. Dewey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas E. Dewey began his career in racket busting in 1931, when he accepted a position as chief assistant to the U.S. Attorney of New York, George Medalie.
		Dewey began his crusade on crime by attacking prostitution, loan sharks, numbers and gambling, which all eventually lead to the mob bosses running New York City, namely Lucky Luciano, a man that actually saved Dewey's life.
		Dewey was also found to be a major stock holder in Mary Carter Paints, which was a company that backed the building of the Bahamas casino's run by Meyer Lansky.
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	AllRefer.com - Thomas Edmund Dewey (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Thomas Edmund Dewey 1902–71, American political figure, governor (1943–55) of New York, b.
		Owosso, Mich. Admitted (1925) to the bar, Dewey practiced law and in 1931 became chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
		Reelected (1946) governor, Dewey again ran for President on the Republican ticket in 1948 and, contrary to general expectation, lost the election to Harry S. Truman by a close margin.
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	Reference
		Thomas Edmund Dewey was born in Owosso, Michigan on March 24, 1902, the son of Martin and Annie (Thomas) Dewey.
		Dewey received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Michigan in 1923 and his law degree from Columbia University in 1925.
		Dewey died at the age of 68 on March 16, 1971 from a heart attack at Bal Harbor, Florida.
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	Thomas E. Dewey
		An outstanding political leader and crime fighter, Thomas E. Dewey first made his name as a "rackets buster" leading the fight against organized crime and political corruption as chief assistant U.S. attorney and later as the district attorney of New York County.
		Such was his achievement that letters were delivered to him addressed simply as "Thomas E. Dewey: Enemy of Corruption." Dewey would, during the 1930s, successfully prosecute various gangsters and other assorted underworld figures.
		Dewey would go on to serve three terms as governor of New York State, serving from 1942 to 1954.
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