"No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life."
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United States presidential candidates, 1948Lawyers from the United StatesUnited States presidential candidates, 1944Republican Party (United States) politiciansGovernors of New York
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"One of Dewey's maxims", reported in Richard Norton Smith, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), prologue
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Thomas E. Dewey
Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 47th Governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. He was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in 1944 and 1948, losing the former election to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the latter election to Harry S. Truman in a major upset.
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