Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, 1944 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, 1944 This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1944 election. At the start of the 1944 Republican National Convention, New York Governor Thomas Dewey seemed like the likely presidential nominee, but his nomination was not assured due to strong support for Ohio Governor John W. Bricker and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen. Though Dewey wanted California Governor Earl Warren as his running mate, Warren was convinced that Franklin D. Roosevelt would win re-election, and refused to be anyone's running mate.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Paris Métro) area in the 1770s and was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. The line 9 station opened when the line was extended from Trocadéro to Saint-Augustin on 27 May 1923 and was called "Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées", or just "Rond-Point". On 6 October 1942 a connection between the two stations was opened and the new station was renamed "Marbeuf–Rond-Point des Champs-Elysees" (or more often "Champs-Elysees–Marbeuf"). This new station became Franklin D. Roosevelt station in 1946 when the nearby "Avenue Victor-Emmanuel III" was renamed "Franklin D. Roosevelt Avenue", in honor of the American president who had been an ally of France during