Perhaps best known for being part of the premature and false newspaper headline, "Dewey defeats Truman," Thomas E. Dewey was a prosecutor, governor of New York, and two time Republican presidential candidate. Dewey was born in Michigan in 1902,...

Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) was governor of New York State from 1942 to 1954 and a Republican presidential candidate. Thomas E. Dewey was born on March 24, 1902, at Owosso, Mich. In 1923 he received his bachelor of arts degree from the University...

There is an unspoken but long-understood historical tradition among both the Republican and Democratic parties about whom they decide to send as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. With the nomination of John Bolton to be the next American envoy to the U.N., it...

The Republican presidential race is so unsettled that some party officials are openly talking of a scenario that seemed almost unthinkable until now: the first contested GOP convention in 60 years.Even if Republicans choose a nominee before they convene in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Sept. 1,...

The late humorist Fred Allen wasn't thinking of Albany when he entitled his memoirs Treadmill to Oblivion. But the phase neatly describes the experience of recent New York Governors who saw the state's executive mansion on Eagle Street as a roadside motel and another, more...