FDR Abstains - Alternative Democratic Nominee, 1940?

Democratic Presidential Nominee 1940?

  • Vice President John N. Garner - TX

    Votes: 9 11.1%
  • Postmaster General James Farley - NY

    Votes: 13 16.0%
  • Senator Harry S. Truman - MO

    Votes: 4 4.9%
  • Secretary of State Cordell Hull - TN

    Votes: 24 29.6%
  • Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace - IA

    Votes: 16 19.8%
  • Former Governor Al Smith - NY

    Votes: 4 4.9%
  • Senator Millard E. Tydings - MD

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Senator Alben Barkley - KY

    Votes: 3 3.7%
  • Senator Harry F. Byrd - VA

    Votes: 2 2.5%
  • Senator John H. Bankhead II - AL

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • Former Governor Paul V. McNutt - IN

    Votes: 3 3.7%
  • Senator James F. Byrnes - SC

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Total voters
    81
I'd say a Hull/Lucas ticket. You get an older Southern aristocrat alongside a young, energetic, Midwestern New Dealer with blue-collar roots and maverick cred.
 
DTF955Baseballfan said:
Funny, I also thought I read someplace that Hull died in '44 , but the online sources I checked have him dying in 1955 and in a totally different month.
WP has him resigning in Nov '44 for ill health; could be this got conflated with him dying. (Also, the July '55 death seems like it's pretty stable {going back two years}; if it was really wrong, it would've been changed before now.)
DTF955Baseballfan said:
according to Wikipedia (yeah, same as saying "my cousin's friend's barber said...":D)
It's really not. Pages on subjects as important as this will get watchlisted by people who know what they're talking about, & the uncited junk will get taken out.
 
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