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Henry Wallace

Henry A. Wallace (1888–1965) was the thirty-third vice president of the United States and the Progressive Party nominee in the presidential election of 1948. Wallace served in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, as secretary of agriculture and then as vice president. In the 1944 election, he was replaced as vice president by Harry S. Truman. Wallace served as secretary of commerce until Truman dismissed him in 1946 over disagreements about Cold War policy. Wallace helped establish the Progressive Party and ran unsuccessfully as...