Hungarian Radical Party Hungarian Radical Party The Hungarian Radical Party (, MRP) was a political party in Hungary in the period after World War II. The party was revived after the end of communism in 1989–90, but remained unsuccessful. The party was founded in November 1944 by Imre Csécsy, although it was not organised properly until the spring of 1945. In the parliamentary elections that year it received just 0.1% of the vote, failing to win a seat. The 1947 elections saw the party increase its vote share to 1.7%, winning six seats. Prior to the 1949 elections it was forced to join
1944 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection 1944 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection The Democratic Party's 1944 nomination for Vice President of the United States was determined at the 1944 Democratic National Convention, on July 21, 1944. U.S. Senator Harry S. Truman from Missouri was nominated to be President Franklin D. Roosevelt's running-mate in his bid to be re-elected for a fourth term. How the nomination went to Harry S. Truman, who did not actively seek it, is, in the words of his biographer Robert H. Ferrell, "one of the great political stories of our century". The fundamental issue was that Roosevelt's health was seriously declining,