The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday,November 7,1944. The election took place during World War II,which ended the following year. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term. It was also the fifth presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state;the others have been in 1860,1904,1920,1940,and 2016.
The United Mine Workers of America is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today,the Union also represents health care workers,truck drivers,manufacturing workers and public employees in the United States and Canada. Although its main focus has always been on workers and their rights,the UMW of today also advocates for better roads,schools,and universal health care. By 2014,coal mining had largely shifted to open pit mines in Wyoming,and there were only 60,000 active coal miners. The UMW was left with 35,000 members,of whom 20,000 were coal miners,chiefly in underground mines in Kentucky and West Virginia. However it was responsible for pensions and medical benefits for 40,000 retired miners,and for 50,000 spouses and dependents.
University of Mary Washington (UMW) is a public liberal arts university in Fredericksburg,Virginia. Established in 1908 as the Fredericksburg Teachers College,the institution was named Mary Washington College in 1938 after Mary Ball Washington,mother of the first president of the United States,George Washington. The General Assembly of Virginia changed the college's name to University of Mary Washington in 2004 to reflect the addition of graduate and professional programs to the central undergraduate curriculum,as well as the establishment of more than one campus. The university offers more than 60 graduate and undergraduate degree programs in three colleges:Arts and Sciences,Business,and Education.
Truman State University is a public university in Kirksville,Missouri. It had 3,636 enrolled students in the fall of 2023 pursuing degrees in 55 undergraduate and twelve graduate programs.
The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Its fifteen member institutions are located in the U.S. states of Illinois,Indiana,Iowa,and Missouri. There are also four associate members who participate in sports not sponsored by their home conference.
Kenneth Douglas McKellar was an American politician from Tennessee who served as a United States Representative from 1911 until 1917 and as a United States Senator from 1917 until 1953. A Democrat,he served longer in both houses of Congress than anyone else in Tennessee history.
Evangel University is a private Christian university and seminary in Springfield,Missouri. It is affiliated with the Assemblies of God Christian denomination,which is also headquartered in Springfield. The campus sits on 80 acres that were originally part of O'Reilly General Hospital.
Harry Junior "The Horse" Gallatin was an American professional basketball player and coach. Gallatin played nine seasons for the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1948 to 1957,as well as one season with the Detroit Pistons in the 1957–58 season. Gallatin led the NBA in rebounding and was named to the All-NBA First Team in 1954. The following year,he was named to the All-NBA Second Team. For his career,Gallatin played in seven NBA All-Star Games. A member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame,he is also a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame,the SIU Edwardsville Athletics Hall of Fame,the Truman State University Athletics Hall of Fame,the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame,two Illinois Basketball Halls of Fame,the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) Hall of Fame,the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Hall of Fame,and the SIU Salukis Hall of Fame.
Ben Davis High School (BDHS) is a three-year high school in Indianapolis,Indiana.
Huntington University is a private Christian university in Huntington,Indiana. It is affiliated with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU).
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States,serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death,Truman implemented the Marshall Plan in the wake of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms,but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated the Congress.
Judy Gayle Hample is a former American academic administrator. She is the former chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the Florida Board of Regents. She served as president of the University of Mary Washington,the university's first female president.
The Missouri Military Academy (MMA) is a private preparatory school established on November 22,1889,in Mexico,Missouri. The academy is a selective,all male,boarding school,grades 7 to 12. As a U.S. Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Honor Unit With Distinction,it has the privilege of nominating cadets to the U.S. Military Academy,Naval Academy,Air Force Academy,and Coast Guard Academy.
The 1944 Democratic National Convention was held at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago,Illinois from July 19 to July 21,1944. The convention resulted in the nomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented fourth term. Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri was nominated for vice president. Including Roosevelt's nomination for the vice-presidency in 1920,it was the fifth time Roosevelt had been nominated on a national ticket. The keynote address was given by Governor Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma,in which he "gave tribute to Roosevelt's war leadership and New Deal policies."
Robert Hugh Ferrell was an American historian. He authored more than 60 books on topics including the U.S. presidency,World War I,and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy. One of the country's leading historians,Ferrell was widely considered the preeminent authority on the administration of Harry S. Truman,and also wrote books about half a dozen other 20th-century presidents. He was thought by many in the field to be the "dean of American diplomatic historians",a title he disavowed.
The NABC Player of the Year is an award given annually by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) to recognize the top player in men's college basketball across the three largest college athletic associations in the United States. The award has been given since the 1974–75 season to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I basketball players,and since the 1982–83 season to its Division II and Division III players. The award has been given since the 2007–08 season to National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and to two-year schools' players. The awards have previously been sponsored by State Farm Insurance.
The University of Missouri is a public land-grant research university in Columbia,Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in 1839 as the first public university west of the Mississippi River. It has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1908 and is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very high research activity."
The Mary Washington Eagles are the athletic teams that represent the University of Mary Washington,located in Fredericksburg,Virginia,in NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports. The Eagles compete as members of the Coast to Coast Athletic Conference. All together,Mary Washington sponsors 20 sports:nine for men and 11 for women. The program will add its 21st sport,men's golf,in 2016.
Winona Hazel Welch was an American bryologist. As a professor at DePauw University,she became the first female head of the botany and bacteriology department at DePauw University in Greencastle,Indiana.
