Description:
This is an original campaign button
from the 1948 election campaign of Thomas Dewey and Earl
Warren
Bricker for President and Vice President of the United
States. Thomas Edmund Dewey was the
Governor of New York
(1943-1955) and the unsuccessful
Republican
candidate for the
U.S. Presidency
in
1944 and
1948. As
a leader of the liberal faction of the
Republican party
he fought the conservative faction led by Senator
Robert A. Taft,
and played a major role in nominating
Dwight D. Eisenhower
for the presidency in
1952.
Dewey represented the Northeastern business and
professional community that accepted most of the
New Deal
after 1944.
