Vice President
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As the Democratic convention assembled in 1944, the big city party leaders - Edward J. Flynn of New York City, Frank Hague of New Jersey, Edward J. Kelly of Chicago, and Robert E. Hannegan of St. Louis - convinced Franklin D. Roosevelt that Vice President Henry A Wallace's radical ideas and pro-Soviet sympathies would endanger the ticket in the South and in metropolitan areas. Roosevelt then wrote a letter to the convention, suggesting Truman or Justice William O. Douglas as possible Vice Presidential nominees. The bosses preferred Truman, who was nominated on the second ballot. He was elected in November and served as Vice President for 82 days.
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