This article lists those who were potential candidates for the
Republican nomination for
Vice President of the United States in the
1944 election. At the start of the
1944 Republican National Convention, New York Governor
Thomas Dewey seemed like the likely presidential nominee, but his nomination was not assured due to strong support for Ohio Governor
John W. Bricker and former Minnesota Governor
Harold Stassen.[1] Though Dewey wanted California Governor
Earl Warren as his running mate, Warren was convinced that
Franklin D. Roosevelt would win re-election, and refused to be anyone's running mate.[2] Some Republicans wanted to ask Democratic Senator
Harry Byrd of Virginia to be the Republican running mate in order to pursue the Southern vote, but this possibility was not seriously pursued.[1] Dewey and his advisers instead worked out a deal in which Bricker's delegates voted for Dewey in the presidential ballot, and Dewey in return chose Bricker as his running mate.[1] The Dewey–Bricker ticket, which balanced the moderate Northeastern and conservative Midwestern wings of the party, was ratified by the Republican convention.[1] The ticket lost the 1944 presidential election to the
Roosevelt–
Truman ticket.
^Sigelman, Lee; Wahlbeck, Paul (December 1997). "The "Veepstakes": Strategic Choice in Presidential Running Mate Selection". The American Political Science Review. 91 (4): 858.
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