1944 United States presidential election in South Carolina 1944 United States presidential election in South Carolina The 1944 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. South Carolina was won by Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt won the state over New York governor Thomas E. Dewey by a landslide margin of 83.18 percent. Unpledged Southern Democrats – foreshadowing the Dixiecrat bolt that would begin in the following election to completely transform the state’s politics – received
Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt The Unfinished Portrait is a watercolor of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Elizabeth Shoumatoff. Shoumatoff was commissioned to paint a portrait of President Roosevelt and started her work around noon on April 12, 1945. At lunch, Roosevelt complained of a headache and subsequently collapsed. The President, who had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke), died later that day. Shoumatoff never finished the portrait, but she later painted a new, largely identical one, based on memory. The "Unfinished Portrait" hangs at Roosevelt's retreat, the Little White House, in Warm Springs, Georgia, and its finished counterpart beside