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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wendell Lewis Willkie (pronounced /?w?lki/; February 18, 1892 ? October 8, 1944) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and was the dark horse Republican Party nominee for the 1940 presidential election, where he crusaded against the inefficiency and anti-business policies of the New Deal. Although Willkie won more votes in the 1940 presidential election (22.3 million votes) than any previous Republican candidate, he lost the popular vote 27 million to 22 million and the Electoral College vote to Franklin D. Roosevelt by 449 to 82, carrying ten…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wendell Lewis Willkie (pronounced /?w?lki/; February 18, 1892 ? October 8, 1944) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and was the dark horse Republican Party nominee for the 1940 presidential election, where he crusaded against the inefficiency and anti-business policies of the New Deal. Although Willkie won more votes in the 1940 presidential election (22.3 million votes) than any previous Republican candidate, he lost the popular vote 27 million to 22 million and the Electoral College vote to Franklin D. Roosevelt by 449 to 82, carrying ten states. He then joined Roosevelt's team as a roving ambassador, allowing him to promote a "One World" form of internationalism. He never held any political office.