1. 1948
... for candidacy since the beginning of his political career in 1939. He had made his emergence as a district attorney of New York and as biographer Richard Norton Smith asserts, " he soon became a popular hero-. Smith adds that with this momentum he ran for governor the following year but was defeated by the highly regarded Lehman. Nevertheless, Dewey was not distraught by defeat ... ...
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