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-In the '''midterm elections of 1942''' the [[Republican Party]] gained 45 seats in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] and nine seats in the [[U.S. Senate]] from the [[Democratic Party]]. Democrats still retained a narrow 222-209 seat majority in the House and a 57-38 seat majority in the Senate.
-During the mist of [[World War II]], President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] called for "an end to politics" <ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468301531.html</ref> as he switched leadership roles from a domestic policy President to a wartime President. However, the nation had yet to fully recover from the [[Great Depression]], [[unemployment]] and [[inflation]] remained high. Disgruntlement over the attack of [[Pearl Harbor]] and conditions of wartime led to big Republican gains. [[Thomas Dewey]] won the governorship of [[New York]] and emerged as the Republican nominee for President in 1944 and 1948.
-==References==
-{{reflist}}
-[[category:Politics]]
-[[category:Republican Party]]
-[[category:Democratic Party]]

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