Background
Dewey was born March 24, 1902 in Owosso, Michigan.
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Dewey was born March 24, 1902 in Owosso, Michigan.
He was educated in the local schools and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923. In 1923 he received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Michigan.
Also he graduated from the law school of Columbia University in 1925.
After briefly studying music and law in Chicago, he entered Columbia University Law School.
After his graduation in 1925, he toured England and France.
Dewey was admitted to the New York bar in 1926 and began practicing law in New York City.
In January 1931 he was appointed chief assistant to George Z. Medalie, United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.
For the next two years he prosecuted rackets.
Upon the retirement of Medalie in the fall of 1933 Dewey succeeded to his position and continued his successful prosecution of racketeers, among them several notorious beer runners who, during the prohibition era, had risen to positions of power in the underworld.
Because of the difficulty of obtaining acceptable legal evidence of law violation and racketeering, often the only means of obtaining conviction was through trial for income-tax evasion.
In 1940 he was a candidate for the presidential nomination, but lost to Wendell L. Willkie.
In 1942 he was elected governor of New York.
In 1946 and again in 1950 he was re-elected governor of New York. Dewey was again nominated as the Republican presidential candidate in 1948 to run against President Harry S. Truman.
Although many had predicted that he would win, Dewey received only 189 electoral votes to Truman's 303.
Before his re-election as governor of New York State in 1950, Dewey disclaimed any presidential aspirations for 1952.
He recommended the Republican nomination of Dwight D. Eisenhower, for whom he actively campaigned in 1952.
Declining to seek reelection as governor in 1954, Dewey entered private law practice in New York City.
In 1955 he reentered private practice with the New York firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer, and Wood.
By 1957 Dewey had been awarded 16 honorary degrees.
His books include The Case against the New Deal (1940), Journey to the Far Pacific (1952), and Thomas E. Dewey on the Two Party System (1966).
In 1969 he declined President Richard M. Nixon's offer to appoint him chief justice of the U. S. Supreme Court.
Dewey played a large role in winning the Republican presidential nomination for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, and helped Eisenhower win the presidential election that year.
He also played a large part in the choice of Richard M. Nixon as the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956.
In 1964, the New York State legislature officially renamed the New York State Thruway in honor of Dewey.
In 2005, the New York City Bar Association named an award after Dewey.
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Returning to New York, he entered the state bar, accepted a clerkship in a law office, and became active in the Young Republican Club.
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed a Democrat to the position 5 weeks later, Dewey returned to private law practice.
In 1950 he was elected to his third successive term as New York's governor. At the suggestion of State Department adviser John Foster Dulles, Dewey visited 17 countries in the Pacific in 1951.
Several good chapters on Dewey's race against Truman are in Irwin Ross, The Loneliest Campaign: The Truman Victory of 1948 (1968).
In 1928 Dewey married Frances E. Hutt; they had two children.
