Vote
At the presidential balloting, Roosevelt got a clear majority, 1086 votes, ahead of Harry F. Byrd with 89 votes and James A. Farley with one vote.
The first vice presidential ballot showed Truman with 319.5 votes and Wallace with 429.5 votes, 159.5 votes short of a majority, but on the second roll call Truman won with 1031 to 105.
Read more about this topic: Democratic Vice Presidential Nomination Of 1944
Famous quotes containing the word vote:
“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“The United States is a republic, and a republic is a state in which the people are the boss. That means us. And if the big shots in Washington don’t do like we vote, we don’t vote for them, by golly, no more.”
—Willis Goldbeck (1900–1979)
“This clinches the bargain;
Sails out of the bay;
Gets the vote in the senate,
Spite of Webster and Clay.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)