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Thomas Edmund Dewey
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34th President of the United States
In office
April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953
Vice Presidentvacant (1945–49)
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1949–53)
Preceded byFranklin D. Roosevelt
Succeeded byJoseph P. Kennedy
33rd Vice President of the United States
In office
January 20, 1945 – April 12, 1945
PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded byHenry A. Wallace
Succeeded byHenry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
47th Governor of New York
In office
January 1, 1943 – January 1, 1945
LieutenantThomas W. Wallace
Joe R. Hanley
Frank C. Moore
Arthur H. Wicks (acting)
Walter J. Mahoney (acting)
Preceded byCharles Poletti
Succeeded byW. Averell Harriman
Personal details
Born Thomas Edmund Dewey
March 24, 1902(1902-03-24)
Owosso, Michigan, the US flag with 38 stars by Hellerick United States of America
Died March 16, 1971(1971-03-16) (aged 68)
Mayflower, the US flag with 44 stars by Hellerick United States of America
Political party Progressive Party
Spouse(s) Frances Hutt (m. 1928; d. 1970)
Children 2
Profession Lawyer; Politician
Religion Christianity (Episcopalianism)

Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician who served as the 34th President of the United States (1948–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dewey briefly served as the 33rd 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 the U.S. president; Daniel D. Tompkins was the youngest man ever served as president in 1814, followed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, but they were never elected to the office and only replaced their predecessors in their capacity as vice-president. Trivially, Dewey was the last president to sport facial hair during his terms.

Dewey was one of the leading members of Progressive Party's right-wing whose 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, who favored conciliatory approach with the USSR.

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