Thomas E. Dewey
Politician
Lucky Luciano...and Luciano always followed Lansky's advice. When Dutch Schultz tried to kill Manhattan District Attorney Thomas Dewey, in direct violation of Luciano's orders, Schultz was executed instead. Luciano had finally reached the pinnacle of... In this article: Lucky Luciano, Salvatore Maranzano, Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Mafia, Vito Genovese, Thomas E. Dewey, and United States |
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New York Post | November 04, 2009
The Democrats' economic peril
Two-thirds of voters opposed a third term for Roosevelt, and in hypothetical match-ups Roosevelt trailed Thomas Dewey, then Manhattan district attorney, and ran only even against Robert Taft, then in his first year in the Senate. All...
In this article: Franklin Roosevelt, Unemployment, Recession, Tax, Robert Taft, Thomas Dewey, California, Big government, and The Washington Examiner
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Wikipedia | July 22, 2009
Stanley H. Fuld
...he married Stella Rapaport. Fuld engaged in private practice until 1935, when he was hired as an investigator by Thomas E. Dewey, Special Prosecutor of Rackets in Manhattan and a schoolmate of Fuld's at Columbia. Fuld's specialty was...
In this article: Stanley Howells Fuld, New York City, Columbia University, Manhattan, City College of New York, and Charles "Lucky" Luciano
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www.washingtonpost.com | December 27, 2006
Today, It's New York: Tomorrow, Oval Office?
...cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected four times. But it has been nearly 60 years since the state produced a presidential finalist, Republican Thomas E. Dewey in 1948. The current crop offers two larger-than-life political...
In this article: New York City, New York, George E. Pataki, Michael R. Bloomberg, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Martin Van Buren, Eliot L. Spitzer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Al Gore
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Caroline K. Simon
She graduated from New York University Law School in 1925. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of Manhattan named her to a panel on revising the Domestic Relations Court Act. During World War II she served as the Office of Civilian...
In this article: W. Averell Harriman, New York City, Manhattan, World War II, United Nations Human Rights Commission, and New York University Law School
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The High Rise of the First Metropolitan Candidate
...and John F. Kennedy was defined by Hyannis Port. Franklin D. Roosevelt's urbanity was bred in the Hudson Valley, while Thomas Dewey lived in Manhattan but fled to his upstate farm on weekends.) By contrast, Obama grew up in Honolulu and...
In this article: Barack Obama, Chicago, Louisville, Sarah Palin, Mark Mallory, Brookings Institution, Virginia Tech, White House, and John McCain
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1940 Republican National Convention
...for the 1940 Republican nomination was wide-open. Front-runners included Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio and Manhattan District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Newspaper editor and owner Frank Gannett of New...
In this article: Wendell Willkie, Robert Taft, Arthur H. Vandenberg, 1940 Republican National Convention, Charles L. McNary, New York City, Michigan, and Minneapolis Star
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Wendell Willkie
...Nazi Germany. The three leading candidates for the 1940 Republican nomination were Senators Robert Taft of Ohio and Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, and Thomas E. Dewey , the "gangbusting" District Attorney from Manhattan. All three men had...
In this article: Wendell Willkie, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Republican Party, Robert Taft, Henry A. Wallace, and Charles L. McNary
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Marked Woman
...organized crime in New York City. Dewey indicted and convicted several prominent gangsters; his greatest achievement was the conviction of Lucky Luciano, the organized crime boss of the entire city. Dewey used the testimony of numerous...
In this article: Marked Woman, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Manhattan, Jane Bryan, Lucky Luciano, and Jack Warner
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Whitman Knapp
...Wickersham & Taft in Manhattan. He remained there until 1938, when he left to become an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan under the newly elected racket-busting District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. In 1941, Mr. Knapp returned to...
In this article: Whitman Knapp, Manhattan, New York, Frank S. Hogan, and New York City Police Department
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Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902–March 16, 1971) was the Governor of New York (1943–1954) and the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency in 1944 and 1948. As a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party he fought the conservative faction led by Senator Robert A. Taft, and played a major role in nominating Dwight D. Eisenhower for the presidency in 1952. Dewey represented the business and professional community of the Northeastern United States, a group that later became known as the "Eastern Establishment." This group accepted most of the New Deal social-welfare reforms after 1944, and were internationalists who supported international groups such as the United Nations and the Cold War policies opposing the Soviet Union and Communism. Dewey's successor as leader of the liberal Republicans was Nelson Rockefeller, who became governor of New York in 1959. The New York State Thruway is named in his honor.
- Birth Date:
- March 24, 1902
- Birthplace:
- Owosso, Michigan
- Death Date:
- March 16, 1971
- Place of Death:
- Miami, Florida
- Religion:
- Episcopalian
- Spouse:
- Frances Hutt (1928-1971) (Thomas' death)
- University Attended:
- University of Michigan, Columbia University Law School
- Occupation:
- Politician
- Political party:
- Republican
- Office:
- Governor of New York
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