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Wendell Willkie was an American industrialist and political leader. He practiced law in Ohio (1914-1923) and in New York (1923-1933) before becoming President of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation (1933), a giant utility holding company. A registered Democrat who was actually a Roosevelt delegate at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, Willkie had become disenchanted with F.D.R.’s New Deal programs and with the Democratic party, so, in 1940, he bolted the party and became a Republican, and just a few months later found himself a nominee for president at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Receiving 105 votes on the first ballot, he was definitely the underdog. But by the sixth ballot, he had 633 votes, which were enough to secure the nomination. Willkie had never run for a public office and even though he lost to F.D.R. in the November Presidential election, he did receive over 22 million popular votes (44.8%). We offer two different 1.25 inch picture buttons from Willkie’s 1940 campaign, as pictured.
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