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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1948. Incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman defeated heavily favored Republican New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and third-party candidates, becoming the third president to succeed to the presidency upon his predecessor's death and be elected to a full term.
The 1948 United States elections were held on November 2, 1948. The election took place during the beginning stages of the Cold War. Democratic incumbent President Harry S. Truman was elected to a full term in an upset, defeating Republican nominee New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey and two erstwhile Democrats.
The 1948 Women's Armed Services Integration Act allowed women to serve in the peacetime military in all-female units. Truman appointed non-whites to unprecedented positions of power in the executive and judicial branches. [233] Among his appointments was William Henry Hastie, the first African American to serve as a federal appellate judge. [234]
1948 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th ... Irish head of government from 1918 to 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition.
The London Six-Power Conference in 1948 was held between the three Western occupation forces in Germany after the World War II (United States, Britain and France) and the Benelux countries. The aim of the conference was to pave the way for Germany's participation in the international community through the creation of a democratic and federal ...
July 12–14 – 1948 Democratic National Convention (Philadelphia) July 17 – Dixiecrat National Convention (Birmingham) July 20 – Cold War : President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President ...
The 1948 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
20 October – 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster: a KLM Lockheed Constellation airliner crashes [18] into power cables on approach to Prestwick Airport in Scotland, killing all 40 people on board. 27 October–6 November – First postwar Motor Show held at Earls Court, London. A record 562,954 visitors witness a wide range of new products ...