As the Republican nominee for president in 1940, he ran on a platform that vigorously opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies, especially the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Pictured on a 75¢ US definitive postage stamp in the Great Americans
series, issued 16 February 1992.
Was the most recent major party US presidential nominee with no prior government experience until Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016.
Passed away just 7 1/2 months after his vice-presidential/running mate Charles McNary.
Has been found by scholars to be the first U.S. presidential nominee who never had held a previous position in politics or major military.