Wallace, Henry A. 1888-1965

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1941-1945,
PROGRESSIVE PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE,
1948

Spokesman for the Common Man.

Henry A. Wallace began his political career as secretary of agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served as Roosevelt's vice-president from 1941 to 1945, only to be replaced by Harry S Truman in Roosevelt's reelection bid due to his increasing belief that compromise and cooperation could be achieved with the Soviet Union. Perhaps more than any other Democrat of his day, with the exception of Roosevelt, Wallace represented the socially conscious and compassionate wing of the New Deal. Had he remained vicepresident he would have been president upon Roosevelt's death in 1945; though he would have been pressured by the same advisers as Truman, his approach to the issues of postwar global reconstruction would undoubtedly have been different. Wallace hoped to make government...

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