1944 United States presidential election in Utah 1944 United States presidential election in Utah The 1944 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 7, 1944. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and Utah voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. The Democratic Party candidate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the state of Utah with 60.44 percent of the popular vote. The Republican Party candidate, Thomas E. Dewey, garnered 39.42 percent of the popular vote. , this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Washington, Millard, Box Elder, Cache,
Fourth inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt Fourth inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt The fourth inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States was held on Saturday, January 20, 1945. The inauguration marked the commencement of the fourth term of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president and the only term of Harry S. Truman as Vice President. This was the first and only time a president has been inaugurated for a fourth term. (The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1951, limits the number of times a person can be elected president to two.) Roosevelt died days into this term, and Truman