The Election of 1948

This collection provides documents and the perspectives of the four base camps from the 1948 United States presidential election: Democrat incumbent President and eventual victor Harry S. Truman (1884���1972; U.S. President, 1945���1953), Republican and New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey (1902���1971), Progressive and former Vice President Henry A. Wallace (1888���1965) and Dixiecrat and South Carolina Governor J. Strom Thurmond (1902���2003). Sources include Papers of Harry S Truman, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Papers of Americans for Democratic Action as well as selections from several southern newspapers.