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D35511-1
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- 1948-09-27 (Creation)
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In September of 1948, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey (center), Republican Presidential candidate, stood with Mrs. Dewey on the platform of the chartered train, the "Victory Special", at Union Station and smilingly received a gift from Robert E. Hunt, college classmate and head of Tacoma's "Dewey-for President-Club." Robert Hunt and Governor Dewey were classmates at the University of Michigan where both had ambitions as singers. This was Governor Dewey's second attempt at the presidency; he was defeated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944 and by Harry S. Truman in 1948. (T. Times, 9-27-48, p. 1, T. Times 9-28-48, p. 1, TNT 9-28-48, p. 1) ALBUM 2.
Presidential elections--Tacoma--1940-1950; Whistle-stop campaigning--Tacoma; Dewey, Thomas E., 1902-1971; Dewey, Frances; Hunt, Robert E.;