February 29, 2024
1948 VINTAGE HARRY S. TRUMAN FOR PRESIDENT POLITICAL CAMPAIGN BUTTON 7/8"
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This is a 7/8" button from the 1948 presidential election. It has a nice monochrome photo of Harry Truman. Above the photo, are the words "FOR PRESIDENT"; below the photo are the words "HARRY S. TRUMAN". There is a union bug on the curl.Harry Truman was a two-term senator from Missouri when he ran for vice-president in 1944 on a ticket headed by Franklin Roosevelt, who was seeking his fourth term as president. Roosevelt won, then died on April 12, 1945; Truman was sworn in as president the same day. It was left to Truman to preside over the last month of the war in Europe and the last four months of the war in the Pacific, including making the decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan in August of 1945. Truman ran for re-election in 1948 against New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Every reputable political expert in the country predicted that Dewey would easily win the election, especially considering that Strom Thurmond had led a southern states walkout from the Democratic convention and was running for president as a "Dixiecrat", depriving Truman of the traditional Democratic "solid south" and former Vice-President Henry A. Wallace had left the Democratic party to run against Truman as a candidate of the Progressive party, depriving Truman the votes of urban progressives. But in the biggest upset in American presidential political
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