1948 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection

none 1948 Republican vice presidential nomination California Earl Warren John W. Bricker Vice Presidential nominee FF3333 Earl Warren 160x160px 1948 06 25 1952 1952 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection 1944 1944 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection primary This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1948 election. After New York Governor Thomas Dewey secured the Republican presidential nomination on the third ballot of the 1948 Republican National Convention, the convention needed to choose Dewey's running mate. Dewey and several party leaders discussed Dewey's running mate during the evening of June 24. House Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen were both considered, but Dewey ultimately decided to ask California Governor Earl Warren to be his running mate.Karabell Zachary The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election 18 December 2007 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 149 9780307428868 https://books.google.com/books?id=QXfdFHmFa_8C&q=dewey+warren+1948 7 October 2015 Warren had earlier said that he would not accept the vice presidential nomination, and asked for time to consider the offer. In the meantime, Stassen was offered the nomination if Warren declined.Donaldson Gary Truman Defeats Dewey 2000 University Press of Kentucky 154–155 9780813128511 https://books.google.com/books?id=_w_VBgcj7scC&q=%22fielding+wright%22+1948 8 October 2015 However, Dewey convinced the reluctant Warren to join his ticket. Halleck alleged that he had been promised the vice presidency in exchange for supporting Dewey, but Halleck's isolationism convinced Dewey and others to pass him over.Reinhard David https://books.google.com/books?id=SscfBgAAQBAJ&q=dewey+warren+halleck+1948 The Republican Right Since 1945 5 February 2015 University Press of Kentucky 9780813164403 48–49 7 October 2015 The Dewey-Warren ticket was well-received by the press, as it combined the youthful, popular governors of two of the three most populous states in the nation. Despite being favored by most, the Dewey–Warren ticket lost the 1948 election to the Democratic Truman–Barkley ticket.Newton Jim Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made 2 October 2007 Penguin 210–211 978-1-59448-928-0 https://archive.org/details/justiceforallear0000newt registration 7 October 2015 In 1953, Warren was appointed Chief Justice of the United States by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Potential running mates Finalists Others See also 1948 Republican National Convention References Category:Republican Party (United States) vice presidential nominees Category:1948 United States presidential election Republican vice