1944 Presidential Election

VAP turnout uses this page’s presidential vote total. VAP here is the civilian population and excludes Armed Forces members. VEP turnout is a separately published historical rate, using its own turnout and population estimates. These rates are not directly comparable.
59.7%
Turnout by VAP

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

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Roosevelt and Truman's Cabinet

Officials who served during the 1945–1949 elected term, under President Roosevelt and, after his death on April 12, 1945, President Truman. Years show full tenure in office, including service outside the term; acting service is identified. The War Department was reorganized in 1947. Military service secretaries, the budget director and UN representatives are also listed; these additional offices were not all Cabinet departments.

President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)

Vice President: Harry S. Truman (1945–1945), Vacant (1945–1949)

Secretary of State: Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (1944–1945), James F. Byrnes (1945–1947), George C. Marshall (1947–1949)

Secretary of the Treasury: Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1934–1945), Fred M. Vinson (1945–1946), John Wesley Snyder (1946–1953)

Secretary of War: Henry L. Stimson (1940–1945), Robert P. Patterson (1945–1947), Kenneth C. Royall (1947–1947)

Secretary of Defense: James Forrestal (1947–1949)

Attorney General: Francis Biddle (1941–1945), Tom C. Clark (1945–1949)

Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker (1940–1945), Robert E. Hannegan (1945–1947), Jesse M. Donaldson (1947–1953)

Secretary of the Navy: James Forrestal (1944–1947), John L. Sullivan (1947–1949)

Secretary of the Interior: Harold L. Ickes (1933–1946), Julius Albert Krug (1946–1949)

Secretary of Agriculture: Claude R. Wickard (1940–1945), Clinton Anderson (1945–1948), Charles F. Brannan (1948–1953)

Secretary of Commerce: Jesse H. Jones (1940–1945), Henry A. Wallace (1945–1946), W. Averell Harriman (1946–1948), Charles W. Sawyer (1948–1953)

Secretary of Labor: Frances Perkins (1933–1945), Lewis B. Schwellenbach (1945–1948), David A. Morse (acting) (1948–1948), Maurice J. Tobin (1948–1953)

Secretary of the Army: Kenneth C. Royall (1947–1949)

Secretary of the Air Force: Stuart Symington (1947–1950)

Director of the Bureau of the Budget: Harold D. Smith (1939–1946), James E. Webb (1946–1949), Frank Pace Jr. (1949–1950)

Ambassador to the United Nations: Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (1945–1946), Warren R. Austin (1946–1953)

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Electoral Votes

Other color: Socialist Party (Norman Thomas). Left-leaning alignment. Combined Other totals include all remaining candidates.

266 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.

Presedential Election

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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

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