* 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.

In the 1944 presidential election Willkie again sought the Republican nomination, choosing his wife's hometown, Rushville, Indiana, as his campaign headquarters.

The subsequent passing of the 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1947 renders this election the only occasion in American history in which a candidate was elected to an unprecedented third term as president ( Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term in 1944, but he died less than three months after his inauguration ).

The United States presidential election of 1944 took place while the United States was preoccupied with fighting World War II.

During the 1944 election campaign, Dewey suffered an unexpected blow when a remark attributed to socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth ( daughter of Theodore Roosevelt ) mocked Dewey as " the little man on the wedding cake " ( alluding to his neat mustache and dapper dress ).

The Liberal Party, which had been active since 1944, became defunct as a result of the 2002 gubernatorial election.

In the 1944 election, during World War II, he won a fourth term, but suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died in office the following year.

" He lost his seat at the general election of 1943, but regained it when de Valera called a snap election in 1944.

Dulles was a close associate of Thomas E. Dewey, who became the presidential candidate of the Republican Party in the 1944 election and 1948.

They continued as interim trustees until April of 1944 when a general election was held and a mayor and city officials elected.

He was confronted with a crisis in 1944 when de Valera's government unexpectedly collapsed in a vote on the Transport Bill and the President had to decide whether or not to grant an election to de Valera.

Duplessis returned as premier in the 1944 election, and held power without serious opposition for the next fifteen years, until his death, winning elections in 1948, 1952 and 1956.

Elected to the National Assembly of Quebec, Jean Lesage's Liberal Party won the 1960 Quebec general election, campaigning with the slogan of C ’ est le temps que ça change ( It ’ s time things changed ) and putting an end to the long reign of the Union nationale that had governed Quebec under Maurice Duplessis since 1935 ( except for the period from 1940 to 1944 ).

" Finally, in part under the influence of New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Fish's congressional career ended when he won the Republican Party primary in his district but lost the general election in 1944.

The Liberals returned to power in the 1939 election, but lost it again in the 1944 election.

Most were named Person of the Year either the year they were elected or while they were in office ; the only one to be given the title before being elected is Dwight D. Eisenhower, who won it in 1944 as Supreme Commander of the Allied Invasion Force, eight years before his election.

In 1944 he was first placed on house arrest, and stripped of his right to be candidate to an election on 5 September 1945.

He led the CCF to power in the 1944 provincial election, winning 47 of 53 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, and thus forming the first democratic socialist government in not only Canada, but all of North America.

* 1944-U. S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection, becomes the only U. S. president elected to a fourth term

Mulcahy was returned again to the 12th Dáil as TD for Tipperary at the 1944 general election.

He was also a Bloc populaire candidate in the 1944 provincial election but was badly defeated in his Montreal constituency.

The split damaged the Labour movement in the 1944 general election.

Churchill, always a regular customer, did his electioneering for his first postwar election sitting on the top of the back seat of a discreetly fast and luxurious low-slung Dolphin two-door drophead coupé first registered in 1944.

In 1944, the Saskatchewan CCF formed the first socialist government in North America.

In 1944, it became the first social-democratic government in North America ( based in Saskatchewan ).

He left federal politics to become the Saskatchewan CCF's leader and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961.

Despite being a federal Member of Parliament and not yet an MLA, Douglas was elected the leader of the Saskatchewan CCF in 1942 but did not resign from the House of Commons until 1 June 1944.

E. F. Anthony " Tony " Merchant, Q. C., born October 19, 1944 in Yorkton is a former politician and Saskatchewan lawyer whose law firm had major involvement in the residential school lawsuits.

The Liberals increased their level of public support but were unable to defeat the Saskatchewan CCF which had held power since the 1944 election.

In the 1944 election, however, Saskatchewan experienced a dramatic change when it elected the first democratic socialist government in North America under Tommy Douglas and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ).

Unlike the Saskatchewan CCF, which had won office in the 1944 Saskatchewan election on a platform calling for social programs, the Alberta CCF was more radical and campaigned on provincial ownership of the province's resources and utilities.

He was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in 1944.

He was also active in the Saskatchewan Teachers ' Federation and held many positions in the organization including the presidency from 1940 to 1944.

In 1944, Woodrow Lloyd was elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member for the constituency of Biggar, a seat he held until his retirement in 1971.

In the 1944 election, however, the Liberals were easily defeated by the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation under the leadership of Tommy Douglas.

This political party took power in the province of Saskatchewan in 1944.

* Tommy Douglas forwarded public health insurance as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and federal leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971.

In 1944, the national party was performing well in the polls and a CCF government was elected in neighbouring Saskatchewan.

Saskatchewan was the only jurisdiction to delay a general election by more than a year, due to World War II, but held an election in 1944, six years after the previous vote.

* James Forbes Creighton ( 1879 – 1944 ), physician and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

* Saskatchewan general election, 1944 53. 1 %-35. 4 % 47-5 ( wipe out )

In 1944 he left high school and was employed with Saskatchewan Pool Elevators for five years.

With the election in 1944 of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Party to a majority in the Legislative Assembly, the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in Saskatchewan was targeted for spending cutbacks.