1944 Presidential Election

90,599,000
Voting Age Population
53.0%
Turnout by VAP

Results of the presidential election of 1944, won by Franklin D. Roosevelt with 432 electoral votes.

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Harry S. Truman’s Cabinet

President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945) and Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)

Vice President: Harry S. Truman (1945)

Secretary of State: James F. Byrnes (1945-1947), George C. Marshall (1947-1949)

Secretary of the Treasury: Fred M. Vinson (1945-1946), John Wesley Snyder (1946-1953)

Secretary of War: Robert P. Patterson (1945-1947), Kenneth Claiborne Royall (1947-1947)

Secretary of Defense: James Forrestal (1947-1949)

Attorney General: Tom C. Clark (1945-1949)

Postmaster General: Robert E. Hannegan (1945-1947), Jesse M. Donaldson (1947-1953)

Secretary of the Navy: James Forrestal (1945-1947)

Secretary of the Interior: Harold L. Ickes (1945-1946), Julius Albert Krug (1946-1949)

Secretary of Agriculture: Clinton Anderson (1945-1948), Charles F. Brannan (1948-1953)

Secretary of Commerce: Henry A. Wallace (1945-1946), W. Averell Harriman (1946-1948), Charles W. Sawyer (1948-1953)

Chief Justice: Harlan Fiske Stone (1941-1946)

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1944 Candidate Electoral Votes

267 to win
25,612,610 popular votes (53.4%)
Running Mate: Harry S. Truman
22,014,160 popular votes (45.9%)
Running Mate: John W. Bricker

Roosevelt becomes first (and only) President elected for a 4th consecutive term, leading to the passing of the 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1947. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, replaced by Harry S. Truman.

State Electoral Votes

Alabama

11

Alaska

Arizona

4

Arkansas

9

California

25

Colorado

6

Connecticut

8

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

Florida

8

Georgia

12

Hawaii

Idaho

4

Illinois

28

Indiana

13

Iowa

10

Kansas

8

Kentucky

11

Louisiana

10

Maine

5

Maryland

8

Massachusetts

16

Michigan

19

Minnesota

11

Mississippi

9

Missouri

15

Montana

4

Nebraska

6

Nevada

3

New Hampshire

4

New Jersey

16

New Mexico

4

New York

47

North Carolina

14

North Dakota

4

Ohio

25

Oklahoma

10

Oregon

6

Pennsylvania

35

Rhode Island

4

South Carolina

8

South Dakota

4

Tennessee

12

Texas

23

Utah

4

Vermont

3

Virginia

11

Washington

8

West Virginia

8

Wisconsin

12

Wyoming

3