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Thomas Edmund Dewey ( March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971 ) was the 47th Governor of New York ( 1943 – 1954 ).
He led the liberal faction of the Republican Party, in which he fought conservative Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft.
Dewey was an advocate for the professional and business community of the Northeastern United States, which would later be called the " Eastern Establishment ".
This organization accepted the majority of New Deal social-welfare reforms enacted during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It consisted of internationalists who were in favor of the United Nations and the " Cold War " fight against communism and the Soviet Union.
Dewey's successor as leader of the liberal Republicans was Nelson Rockefeller, who became governor of New York in 1959.
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