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From March 12 to May 17, 1940, voters of the Republican Party chose delegates to nominate a candidate for president at the 1940 Republican National Convention.The nominee was selected at the convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from June 24–28, 1940.
The 1940 Republican National Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from June 24 to June 28, 1940. It nominated Wendell Willkie of New York for president and Senator Charles McNary of Oregon for vice president. The contest for the 1940 Republican presidential nomination was wide-open.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican businessman Wendell Willkie to be reelected for an unprecedented third term in office.
During his 1940 campaign, Willkie had pledged to integrate the civil service and armed forces, and proudly pointed to what he deemed the strongest civil rights plank in history in the Republican platform. He also promised to end racial segregation in Washington, D.C.
2 This convention was known as the National Union Republican Convention. 3 Sherman, who had been elected vice president in 1908, died six days before the 1912 election; he was subsequently replaced as Republican vice-presidential nominee by Nicholas M. Butler of New York.
The 1940 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on April 9, 1940, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 1940 presidential election. The preference vote was a "beauty contest". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates. [5]
The 1940 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 5, 1940 as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Politics in Wisconsin since the Populist movement had been dominated by the Republican Party. [2]
The presidential election of 1940 was a very partisan election for New York, with 99.45% of the electorate casting votes for either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. [2] In typical form for the time, the highly populated centers of New York City , Albany , Buffalo , and Rochester voted primarily Democratic , while the majority of ...