Thomas Dewey
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| Born | Thomas Edmund Dewey March 24, 1902 Owosso, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | March 16, 1971 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, Columbia Law School |
| Children | Thomas E. Dewey Jr., John Martin Dewey |
| Spouse | Frances Eileen Hutt |
| Party | Republican |
Governor of New York, US lawyer, attended the 1957 February Bilderberg | |
Thomas Edmund Dewey was an American lawyer and politician who was governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. He was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in 1944 and 1948, losing the former election to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the latter election to Harry S. Truman in a major upset.
Dewey was an advocate for the professional and business community of the Northeastern United States, which would later be called the Eastern Establishment. This group consisted of internationalists who were in favor of the United Nations, the New Deal reforms enacted during the administration of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the fight against communism and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Dewey was a Zionist. In October 1945, he spoke at a rally in Madison Square Garden, calling for the lifting of British restrictions on Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine.[1]
Dewey sought the 1940 Republican presidential nomination, but his non-interventionist stance became problematic for the British, who conspired to make Wendell Willkie win the candidacy.
District prosecutor
As a New York City prosecutor and District Attorney in the 1930s and early 1940s, Dewey was relentless in his effort to curb the power of the American Mafia and of organized crime in general. Most famously, he successfully prosecuted mafia boss Charles "Lucky" Luciano on charges of forced prostitution in 1936. Luciano was given a 30- to 50-year prison sentence. He also prosecuted and convicted Waxey Gordon, another prominent New York City gangster and bootlegger, on charges of tax evasion. Dewey almost succeeded in apprehending mobster Dutch Schultz as well, but Schultz was murdered in 1935, in a hit ordered by the Commission.
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