1944 United States elections net loss of one seat to the Republicans, they still kept a large majority in the Senate. 1944 United States elections The 1944 United States elections was held on November 7, 1944, taking place just a month after the Allies liberated Paris in World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected to an unprecedented fourth term, while the Democrats retained their majorities in both chambers of Congress. Seeking a record fourth term, Democratic incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was challenged by Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Dewey ran an energetic campaign, seeking a smaller government and
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