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
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“My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have a vote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.”
—Septima Clark (1898–1987)
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