On November 7, 1916, Montana suffragist Jeannette Rankin
was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the
first woman in the history of the nation to win a seat in the
federal Congress.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973)
On November 7, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was
elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office. FDR remains
the only president to have served more than two terms.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)
SANDY KOZEL
In one of the greatest upsets in presidential election
history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman
defeats his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas
E. Dewey of New York, by just over two million popular
votes.
In the days preceding the vote, political analysts and
polls were so behind Dewey that on election night,
long before all the votes were counted, the Chicago
Tribune published an early edition with the banner
headline above, “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.”
Harry Truman (left) and his political rival Thomas Dewey.
