Republican Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...electorate and regularly went down to defeat every four years, with Alfred M. Landon (1936), Wendell Willkie (1940), and Thomas E. Dewey (1944). Isolationists held the upper hand in the party before World War II, and in 1940 two Republicans, Henry L. Stimson...