Black and white image of Thomas E. Dewey speaking to a group of people at the Washington County Courthouse. Dewey sought the Republican nomination three times, in 1940, 1944, and successfully in 1948. Incumbent president Harry Truman defeated Dewey in the general election that year.
Black and white image of a crowd filling the lawn in front of Pacific University's Marsh Hall to listen to then-governor of New York, Thomas Dewey, speak. Dewey was running for the Republican nomination for President against a field of five other candidates.
Black and white image of Thomas E. Dewey, speaking to a crowed at Pacific University. Dewey won the Republican nomination, but lost in the general election that following November to incumbent president Harry Truman.
Black and white image of Thomas E. Dewey, campaigning for the Republican nomination for President in Hillsboro in 1948. Dewey speaks from the front entrance of the Washington County Courthouse. Eventually winning the Republican nomination against a field of 5 other candidates and highly favored to win, Dewey lost in the general election that fall, leading to the famous picture of President Harry Truman holding up the newspaper with the headline 'Dewey Defeats Truman' on the morning after the election.
Black and white image of Thomas E. Dewey, campaigning for the Republican nomination for President at Pacific University in 1948. Dewey defeated, among others, Harold Stassens for the nomination that year, only to lose to Truman in the general election in November. Though perhaps most familiar to most as the loser of the 1948 election to Truman, Dewey came to prominence in his home state of New York in the mid 1930s, where as Special Prosecutor he mounted an ambitious campaign to bring down mob bosses and corrupt politicians.
