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Thomas Dewey

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Name: Thomas Edmund Dewey
Birth Date: March 24, 1902
Death Date: March 16, 1971
Place of Birth: Owosso, Michigan, United States
Place of Death: Bal Harbour, Florida, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician, attorney, governor, writer

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Biography of Thomas Edmund Dewey
568 words, approx. 2 pages
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,...
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Biography of Thomas Edmund Dewey
450 words, approx. 2 pages
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...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Dewey, Thomas E(Dmund)
115 words, approx. 1 pages
(born March 24, 1902, Owosso, Mich., U.S.—died March 16, 1971, Bal Harbour, Fla.) U.S. attorney and politician. He became an assistant U.S. attorney in New York in 1931 and was elected district attorney in 1937. His successful prosecution of...


News and Journals
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Journal of Economic Issues
Dewey and Ayres, Webb and DeGregori: at odds over technical terms.(Notes and Communications)(John Dewey)(James Webb)(Thomas DeGregori)(Clarence Ayres)
12/01/2004: 3,785 words, approx. 13 pages
Science uses its technical names efficiently. Such names serve to mark off certain portions of the scientific subjectmatter as provisionally acceptable, thereby freeing the worker's attention for closer consideration of other portions that remain problematic. --John Dewey, Knowing and the Known ...
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KM World
Free Dewey!
10/01/2004: 726 words, approx. 2 pages
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system has nine main categories, each with 10 major-category slots available to the left of the decimal point. Of the 100 major slots available, why then are 88 of them given over to Christian topics, with one each for...
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The New York Observer
Bolton's Nomination Defies G.O.P History
4/24/2005: 793 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
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AP News
Republicans ponder deadlocked convention
1/17/2008: 798 words, approx. 3 pages
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,...
 


 

Thomas Dewey

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