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As the Democratic convention assembled in 1944, the big city party leaders
- Edward J. Flynn of New York City, Frank Hague of New Jersey, Edward J.
Kelly of Chicago, and Robert E. Hannegan of St. Louis - convinced Franklin
D. Roosevelt that Vice President Henry A Wallace's radical ideas and
pro-Soviet sympathies would endanger the ticket in the South and in
metropolitan areas. Roosevelt then wrote a letter to the convention,
suggesting Truman or Justice William O. Douglas as possible Vice
Presidential nominees. The bosses preferred Truman, who was nominated on
the second ballot. He was elected in November and served as Vice
President for 82 days.
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