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ABOUT
Republican corporate lawyer who, despite never holding political office, was selected to be the Republican Party's nominee for President in 1940. After he lost that election to FDR he was made an informal ambassador-at-large by his former opponent.He attended college at Indiana University and became a Beta Theta Pi fraternity brother in 1913.In 1940, he lost the presidential election to his opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt.
BEFORE FAMEHe was a Kansas high school history teacher.
PERSONAL LIFEHis mother, Henrietta Trisch, was one of the first female lawyers admitted to the bar in Indiana.
Famous QuotesThe constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
Politician Wendell Willkie were born on Thursday, in a leap year, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 46 days until Wendell Willkie next birthday.
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Jan. 03 1949
