1944 United States presidential election in Alabama candidates only managed to pick up 0.53 percent of the vote. 1944 United States presidential election in Alabama The 1944 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Alabama was won in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Senator Harry S. Truman, with 81.28 percent of the popular vote, against Governor Thomas Dewey (R–New York), running with Governor John W. Bricker, with 18.20
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt that celebrates the Four Freedoms he articulated in his 1941 State of the Union address. It is located adjacent to the historic Smallpox Hospital in New York City at the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan Island and Queens. It was designed by the architect Louis Kahn. President Roosevelt made his Four Freedoms speech to the United States Congress in 1941. The Four Freedoms speech has inspired and been incorporated in the Four Freedoms Monument