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The 1944 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose 23 electors [ 1 ] to represent the state in the Electoral College , which chose the president and vice president .
Presidential primaries; Democratic 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024 Republican 1996 2000 2004 ... The 1944 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1944.
As 1944 began, the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 nominee, Senator Robert A. Taft from Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied ...
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1944, in 32 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 7, 1944. Elections took place on September 11 in Maine. This was the last time Idaho elected its governors to 2-year terms, switching to 4-years from the 1946 election.
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
The Texas Regulars disbanded soon afterward, but many of them went on to support the Dixiecrat movement of Strom Thurmond in the 1948 presidential election. [1] They later became "Eisenhower Democrats" (or supported unpledged electors in presidential elections) in the 1950s, before becoming Republicans by the 1960s and 1970s. [1]
James Edward Ferguson Jr. (August 31, 1871 – September 21, 1944), known as Pa Ferguson, was an American Democratic politician and the 26th governor of Texas, in office from 1915 to 1917. He was indicted and impeached during his second term, forced to resign and barred from holding further Texas office. [1] [2] [3] [4]
During the presidential election, Roosevelt was in office for three terms and eleven years, making him the longest-serving President in U.S. history. As the incumbent president, Roosevelt was renominated by the Democratic Party, while in the Republican primaries, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey won his party's nomination