Thomas E. Dewey (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States (1948–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dewey briefly served as the 34th Vice-President of the United States from January to April 1945. He also served as the 47th Governor of New York from 1943 to 1945.

Dewey was the first president born in the 20th century. With his re-election in 1948 at age 45, he was the youngest man to be elected as president alongside of Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Trivially, he also the last president to sport facial hair during his terms.

Dewey was one of the leading members of Progressive Party's right-wing whose his domestic policies were mainly a continuation of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. In foreign issue, his policies were characterized by the containment of Soviet Union's foreign influences through the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and the establishment of the Dewey Doctrine and NATO. Dewey's most prominent critic on foreign policies was Henry A. Wallace, a leading member of left-wing Progressives, whose favored conciliatory approach with the USSR.