Harry L. Hopkins

Harry L. Hopkins
Birth name	Harry Lloyd Hopkins
Role	Democratic candidate in the 1940 American presidential election
Location	United States of America
Born	17 August 1890 (age 71) Sioux City, Iowa, United States of America
Nationality	American
Political party	Democratic Party
Political alignment	Liberal

Harry L. Hopkins is an American politician and the Democratic candidate in the 1940 American presidential election against the Republican Thomas E. Dewey. He lost the election, receiving 251 electoral votes and 23,866,860 votes.

Trivia

Harry L. Hopkins was a close advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. One of the people behind the New Deal, he became Secretary of Commerce from 1938 to 1940. During World War II, Hopkins was the President's principal diplomatic adviser and participated in the main conferences of the conflict, such as Tehran in 1943 and Yalta in 1945. Suffering from stomach cancer, he died in 1946.