Dewey Defeats Truman
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"Dewey Defeats Truman" was an erroneous banner headline on the front page of the earliest editions of the Chicago Daily Tribune on November 3, 1948, the day after Harry S. Truman, the incumbent presid
Truman holding a copy of the November 3, 1948, edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, with the erroneous headline
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Thomas E. Dewey
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Thomas Edmund Dewey was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. He was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in 194
Dewey Defeats Truman
…on November 3, 1948, the day after Harry S. Truman, the incumbent president of the United States, won an upset victory over his opponent, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, in the 1948 presidential election. A copy of the paper with the incorrect headline was famously held up by Truman on November 4 at St…
Dewey in 1944
Dewey in the University of Michigan yearbook, 1923
Portrait by The New York Times, 1937
Dewey's portrait as governor in 1948