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
Paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt Paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt The paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt began in 1921 when the future President of the United States was 39 years old. His main symptoms were fever; symmetric, ascending paralysis; facial paralysis; bowel and bladder dysfunction; numbness and hyperesthesia; and a descending pattern of recovery. Roosevelt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis at the time, but his symptoms are more consistent with Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) – an autoimmune neuropathy which Roosevelt's doctors failed to consider as a diagnostic possibility. In 1926, his belief in the benefits of