1948 - Truman runs against Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican nominee in the 1948 presidential election. The scientific pollsters, including George Gallup, all predicted that Dewey would beat Truman.

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 ...

The 1948 presidential election almost became a constitutional crisis. Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare for POLITICO By Jeff Greenfield. 09/24/2023 07:00 AM EDT. Link Copied.

Mr. Truman’s popularity collapsed. By spring in 1948, an election year, his approval rating had fallen to 36 percent, down from over 90 percent at the end of World War II.

1948’s election outcome was one of the closest presidential poll results in American history. Projections leading up to Election Day overwhelmingly chose New York Governor Thomas Dewey to win.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 2, 1948, in one of the most unexpected results in U.S. election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman ...

The first presidential election for Healy was in 1948 when Democratic Harry S. Truman defeated Republican New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Healy's daughter, Joan Healy Bisciotti, contacted The ...

That election took place in 1948 and in the nearly 70 years since, one constant is Mary and her will to vote. Her family said she has cast a ballot in every presidential election she’s been ...

HOUSTON — A Houston woman has voted in every election she’s been eligible -- nearly 70 years. Mary Adkins, 101, has voted in every election since Harry Truman won in 1948’s "Dewey defeats ...