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Dewey Picks Nomination Team Amid Ballot Drama
The Republican convention worked through the night to settle the presidential choice with Dewey leading on the second ballot. Rumors swirled around running mate possibilities Bricker Halleck and Stassen as Dewey weighed balancing the ticket while Taft Vandenberg and Warren eyed prominent roles.
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Port Warren
Ohio
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Warren
Halleck
Washington
Dewey
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Charles Halleck
House
Dwight Green
Illinois
Robert A. Taft
Homer Ferguson
Michigan
Senator Taft
Aunt Emma
Raymond A. Baldwin
Connecticut
Baldwin
Herbert E. Brownell
Irving Ives
New York
Ferguson
Arthur Vandenberg
Knowland
California
Earl Warren
Prentiss Cooper
Kentucky
Vandenberg
Henry Fletcher
Martin
Alfred E. Driscoll
New Jersey
Robert F. Bradford
Massachusetts
Taft
Senate
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
Wallace White
Maine
Congress
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
United Nations
Green
Carroll Reece
Everett Dirksen
Raymond Baldwin
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Douglas MacArthur
Stati N
Republican Party
Joe R. Hanley
Albany
Reece
Brownell
J. Russell Sprague
New Yorker
Sprague
Edwin F. Jaeckle
Husky Paul Lockwood
Frank Hnida
New York Po
Lice Force
Hnida
Secret Service
Thomas J. Herbert
Herbert
Senator Vandenberg
Dewey Tur
Roy Roberts
Kansas City Star
Walter F. Hallanan
West Virginia
Hallanan
James A. Purse
Dallas
Purse
Texas
Col
R. B. Creager
National Committee
Creager
Dewey Suite
Arthur Langlie
Leverett Saltonstall
Alexander H. Smith
Leverett Saltonstal
Ed Martin
Pennsylvania
Lew Wentz
Oklahoma
Herbert K. Hyde
United States
Barak T. Mattingly
Missouri
G. Mason Owlett
James Duff
Floyd Marsh
Smith