1944 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1944 United States presidential election in New Jersey The 1944 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 7, 1944. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1944 United States presidential election. New Jersey voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New Jersey was won by the Democratic nominees, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri. Roosevelt and Truman defeated the Republican nominees, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and his running mate Governor John W.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum his Hyde Park estate where they would be available to scholars. Robert D.W. Connor, the first Archivist of the United States, said of the President, "Franklin D. Roosevelt is the nation's answer to the historian's prayer." In July 2015, Archivist of the United States David Ferriero appointed Paul M. Sparrow to be the new director of the FDR Library and Museum. In early planning for the library the President expressed the hope that Eleanor Roosevelt's papers would eventually find a place here. In 1942 President Roosevelt made a rough sketch for wings to be added on to the north and