The 1948 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 12 representatives, or elector
Harry S Truman, bw half length photo portrait, facing front, 1945
Thomas Dewey
Strom Thurmond 1948
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The States' Rights Democratic Party, also colloquially referred to as the Dixiecrat Party, was a short-lived segregationist, states' rights, and Southern Democratic political party in the United State
1948 United States presidential election in Tennessee
…Incumbent president Harry S. Truman won the state with 49.14% of the vote over the Republican nominee, governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey, and the Dixiecrat nominee, governor of South Carolina Strom Thurmond. Eleven of the state's electors voted for Truman, while one voted for Thurmond. For over a century…
Strom Thurmond, c 1961
Fielding L. Wright, 1948