Thomas Dewey facts
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Jimmy the Greek Snyder bet $10,000 at 17–1 odds on Harry Truman to defeat Thomas Dewey in the 1948 election, because Dewey had a mustache and "American women didn't trust men with a mustache". In today's dollars, that bet netted him over $1.7 Million.
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The longest toll road in the U.S. is the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway in New York. It is 641 miles.
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He served as the foreign policy advisor on Governor Thomas Dewey's failed 1944 and 1948 presidential campaigns.
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Thomas E. Dewey, the last major-party presidential candidate with facial hair, is believed to have lost two elections due to public disapproval of his mustache.
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The Chicago Daily Tribune was so sure in Thomas E. Dewey winning the 1948 presidential election, they printed the next day edition with an incorrect headline "Dewey Defeats Truman".
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General Douglas MacArthur ran in the 1944 Republican primaries, winning a majority of the votes. Despite this, at the convention, MacArthur only received 1 delegate against Thomas Dewey's 1056, despite the fact Dewey received nearly 400,000 less of the popular vote.
