1944 United States presidential election in Mississippi

none June 2025 January 2025 1944 United States presidential election 1944 United States presidential election in Mississippi Mississippi Flag of Mississippi (1894-1996).svg presidential no 1940 United States presidential election in Mississippi 1940 1948 United States presidential election in Mississippi 1948 All 9 Mississippi votes to the Electoral College November 7, 1944https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1944 United States Presidential election of 1944 – Encyclopædia Britannica July 19, 2018 x200px 1944_portrait_of_FDR_(1)(small).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York Harry S. Truman 9 158,515 88.02% Dewey circa 1946 (cropped).jpg Thomas E. Dewey Republican Party (United States) New York John W. Bricker 0 11,601 6.44% 1944 United States presidential election in Mississippi results map by county.svg 190px County results Roosevelt #4389E3 60–70% #1666CB 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1944 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose ninehttps://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1941_1953.html#1944 1944 Election for the Fortieth Term (1945-49) July 19, 2018 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Ever since the end of Reconstruction, Mississippi had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party was virtually nonexistent as a result of disenfranchisement among African Americans and poor whites,Wright-Austin Sharon D. The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta 3 July 2006 45 SUNY Press 9780791468012 including voter intimidation against those who refused to vote Democratic. From the time of Henry A. Wallace's appointment as vice-president and the 1943 Detroit race riots,Scher Richard K. Politics in the New South: Republicanism, Race and Leadership in the Twentieth Century 31 December 1996 95 M.E. Sharpe 1563248484 https://archive.org/details/politicsinnewsou02edsche/mode/2up December 4, 2023 registration Internet Archive however, the northern left wing of the Democratic Party became committed to restoring black political rights,Frederickson Karl A. The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 2001 39 Univ of North Carolina Press 0807849103 https://archive.org/details/dixiecratrevolte0000fred_z5d7/mode/2up December 3, 2023 registration Internet Archive a policy vehemently opposed by all Southern Democrats as an infringement upon "states' rights". Anger with the FDR administration intensified further when the Supreme Court ruled in Smith v. Allwright that the white primaries upon which the politics of Mississippi and most other Southern statesVirginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Oklahoma lacked statewide white primaries due to significant Republican opposition from Appalachia or the Cherokee Outlet region, although some counties in these states did use the white primary. lower-alpha were based violated the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Consequently, Mississippi Democrats, already developing opposition to the New Deal, which had provided substantial work for white Mississippians during the 1930s, were very concerned about Roosevelt being renominated for a fourth term. In fact, the original slate of Democratic electors was pledged to vote for a candidate other than Roosevelt.Webb Clyde Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction 198 019029227X Oxford University Press 2005 https://archive.org/details/massiveresistanc0000unse/page/n1/mode/2up registration December 4, 2023 Internet Archive However, FDR remained extremely popular with the majority of Mississippians, even those wealthy enough to pay the state's poll tax.Busbee Wesley F. Mississippi: A History 266 2014 John Wiley & Sons 978-1118822722 Consequently, Governor Thomas L. Bailey was forced to call the state legislature, which replaced the convention-nominated Democratic electors with electors pledged to vote for FDR. 4 electors nominated by the state Democratic convention pledged themselves to vote for FDR and were included on the Democratic ticket. On the other hand, 5 electors nominated by the state Democratic convention chose to not pledge themselves to FDR and were put on a separate ticket altogether.Nov 03, 1944, page 1 - McComb Daily Journal at Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/image/252093203/ 2025-05-13 Newspapers.com en Mississippi was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Senator Harry S. Truman, with 88.02 percent of the popular vote, against Governor Thomas E. Dewey (R–New York), running with Governor John Bricker, with 6.44 percent of the popular vote, making it Roosevelt's strongest state in the election.http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=28&year=1944 1944 Presidential General Election Results – Mississippi July 19, 2018http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1944 The American Presidency Project – Election of 1944 July 19, 2018 As of 2024, this marks the last time that Forrest County has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.Sullivan Robert David http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century America Magazine The National Catholic Review June 29, 2016 It was also the last time until 1972 that Mississippi would back the national winner in a presidential election. This was the last election in which every county voted for the Democrats in Mississippi. The next election would also see all the state's counties go to just one party, albeit to the Dixiecrats rather than the Democrats.Dixiecrat nominees Strom Thurmond and Fielding L. Wright would be listed as “Democratic” on the Mississippi ballot, as they would also in Alabama where national Democratic nominee Truman would not be on the ballot at all. lower-alpha The same would be true of 1964, when all the state's counties went entirely to the Republican Party. As Roosevelt's strongest state, this is the most recent time Mississippi has voted more Democratic than Georgia. Results + General election resultsParty Pledged to Elector Votes Democratic Party (Legislature) Franklin D. Roosevelt Walter S. Welch158,515 Democratic Party (Legislature) Franklin D. Roosevelt John Backstrom158,207 Democratic Party (Legislature) Franklin D. Roosevelt Curtis M. Swango158,015 Democratic Party (Legislature) Franklin D. Roosevelt R. C. Russell157,883 Democratic Party (Legislature) Franklin D. Roosevelt Susie V. Powell150,829 Democratic Party (Legislature) Franklin D. Roosevelt Hugh V. Wall150,403 Democratic Party (Legislature) Franklin D. Roosevelt J. B. Snider150,355 Democratic Party (Legislature) Franklin D. Roosevelt J. P. Coleman150,337 Democratic Party (Legislature) Franklin D. Roosevelt Guy Mitchell, Sr.149,348 Democratic Party (Convention) Unpledged Clarence E. Morgan9,964 Democratic Party (Convention) Unpledged Frank E. Everett9,586 Democratic Party (Convention) Unpledged W. G. McLain9,525 Democratic Party (Convention) Unpledged J. B. Perry, Jr.9,103 Democratic Party (Convention) Unpledged T. J. Tubb8,182 Independent Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey George L. Sheldon7,859 Independent Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey Nelson E. Taylor7,709 Independent Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey M. H. White7,536 Independent Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey John R. Thrasher7,472 Independent Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey Ralph Haxton7,230 Independent Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey J. A. Bratton6,723 Independent Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey John R. Tally6,704 Independent Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey Louise Baugh6,596 Independent Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey John G. Carr6,525 Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey T. C. Moore3,742 Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey Fred W. Hale3,728 Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey J. L. Taylor3,707 Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey Monroe Smith3,584 Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey J. H. Gearhart3,571 Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey Jasper Boykin3,552 Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey F. M. O'Shea3,540 Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey Walter Gearhart3,536 Republican Party Thomas E. Dewey R. A. Whelan3,530Total votes 180,080 Results by county +CountiesMississippi official and statistical register 1939/41 - 1945/49. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112118318259&seq=1014 2025-05-13 HathiTrust enFranklin Delano Roosevelt DemocraticThomas E. Dewey RepublicanUnpledged electors Southern DemocraticMarginTotal votes cast#%#%#%#%# Adams 1,431 74.53%28214.69%20710.78%1,14959.84%1,920 Alcorn 2,569 89.36%2067.17%1003.48%2,36382.19%2,875 Amite 1,348 89.09%875.75%785.16%1,26183.34%1,513 Attala 1,990 87.51%873.83%1978.66%1,79378.85%2,274 Benton 800 89.49%424.70%525.82%74883.67%894 Bolivar 2,119 75.09%37813.39%32511.52%1,74161.69%2,822 Calhoun 2,006 92.49%974.47%663.04%1,90988.01%2,169 Carroll 1,360 90.31%684.52%785.18%1,28285.13%1,506 Chickasaw 1,762 83.31%1808.51%1738.18%1,58274.80%2,115 Choctaw 1,066 89.21%766.36%534.44%99082.85%1,195 Claiborne 667 88.34%455.96%435.70%62282.38%755 Clarke 1,605 89.71%955.31%894.97%1,51084.40%1,789 Clay 956 75.45%1098.60%20215.94%75459.51%1,267 Coahoma 2,234 86.49%1917.39%1586.12%2,04379.09%2,583 Copiah 2,320 93.02%853.41%893.57%2,23189.45%2,494 Covington 1,615 93.35%583.35%573.29%1,55790.00%1,730 DeSoto 1,469 87.23%1237.30%925.46%1,34679.93%1,684 Forrest 3,394 83.08%43610.67%2556.24%2,95872.41%4,085 Franklin 1,137 90.24%493.89%745.87%1,06384.37%1,260 George 1,025 89.68%928.05%262.27%93381.63%1,143 Greene 879 86.52%10910.73%282.76%77075.79%1,016 Grenada 1,239 83.15%1177.85%1348.99%1,10574.16%1,490 Hancock 1,536 86.34%1377.70%1065.96%1,39978.64%1,779 Harrison 5,458 82.72%6229.43%5187.85%4,83673.29%6,598 Hinds 9,575 83.79%9628.42%8917.80%8,61375.37%11,428 Holmes 1,796 86.51%1225.88%1587.61%1,63878.90%2,076 Humphreys 1,103 93.08%352.95%473.97%1,05689.11%1,185 Issaquena20693.64%52.27%94.09%19789.55%220Itawamba1,28783.95%18311.94%634.11%1,10472.02%1,533Jackson2,49687.61%2137.48%1404.91%2,28380.13%2,849Jasper1,61093.93%472.74%573.33%1,55390.61%1,714Jefferson68186.09%253.16%8510.75%59675.35%791Jefferson Davis1,30589.38%886.03%674.59%1,21783.36%1,460Jones4,56389.14%3376.58%2194.28%4,22682.56%5,119Kemper1,30994.72%372.68%362.60%1,27292.04%1,382Lafayette2,04191.32%873.89%1074.79%1,93486.53%2,235Lamar1,04390.07%938.03%221.90%95082.04%1,158Lauderdale5,65388.12%3795.91%3835.97%5,27082.15%6,415Lawrence1,45692.15%452.85%795.00%1,37787.15%1,580Leake2,73696.88%240.85%642.27%2,67294.62%2,824Lee3,27987.70%2306.15%2306.15%3,04981.55%3,739Leflore2,20084.65%2007.70%1997.66%2,00076.95%2,599Lincoln2,38093.41%1034.04%652.55%2,27789.36%2,548Lowndes1,96976.44%36013.98%2479.59%1,60962.46%2,576Madison1,80589.14%1045.14%1165.73%1,68983.41%2,025Marion2,41596.79%542.16%261.04%2,36194.63%2,495Marshall1,34989.69%634.19%926.12%1,25783.58%1,504Monroe2,92789.70%1594.87%1775.42%2,75084.28%3,263Montgomery1,28689.00%745.12%855.88%1,20183.11%1,445Neshoba2,86990.91%1314.15%1564.94%2,71385.96%3,156Newton2,44895.18%562.18%682.64%2,38092.53%2,572Noxubee93485.14%1039.39%605.47%83175.75%1,097Oktibbeha1,82188.48%1105.34%1276.17%1,69482.31%2,058Panola1,79888.97%904.45%1336.58%1,66582.38%2,021Pearl River2,09394.49%843.79%381.72%2,00990.70%2,215Perry77592.26%445.24%212.50%73187.02%840Pike2,73885.03%2487.70%2347.27%2,49077.33%3,220Pontotoc1,64791.35%874.83%693.83%1,56086.52%1,803Prentiss1,58586.75%1759.58%673.67%1,41077.18%1,827Quitman1,00185.92%595.06%1059.01%89676.91%1,165Rankin2,33194.30%983.96%431.74%2,23390.33%2,472Scott2,10594.61%602.70%602.70%2,04591.91%2,225Sharkey66692.24%243.32%324.43%63487.81%722Simpson2,40394.31%783.06%672.63%2,32591.25%2,548Smith2,43292.79%1656.30%240.92%2,26786.49%2,621Stone97294.19%434.17%171.65%92990.02%1,032Sunflower2,54686.19%1555.25%2538.56%2,29377.62%2,954Tallahatchie2,37797.38%401.64%240.98%2,33795.74%2,441Tate1,40594.68%291.95%503.37%1,35591.31%1,484Tippah2,43991.52%1264.73%1003.75%2,31386.79%2,665Tishomingo1,36679.98%29617.33%462.69%1,07062.65%1,708Tunica64985.85%354.63%729.52%57776.32%756Union2,05488.42%1837.88%863.70%1,87180.54%2,323Walthall1,17090.14%685.24%604.62%1,10284.90%1,298Warren3,01886.08%3048.67%1845.25%2,71477.41%3,506Washington1,53562.25%45418.41%47719.34%1,05842.90%2,466Wayne1,30292.01%352.47%785.51%1,22486.50%1,415Webster1,46890.01%1277.79%362.21%1,34182.22%1,631Wilkinson77381.97%808.48%909.54%68372.43%943Winston1,75793.81%512.72%653.47%1,69290.34%1,873Yalobusha1,52590.83%975.78%573.39%1,42885.05%1,679Yazoo2,20092.48%783.28%1014.25%2,09988.23%2,379Totals158,51588.02%11,6016.44%9,9645.53%146,91481.58%180,080 Notes lower-alpha References Mississippi 1944