[reg45]

If FDR had not run in 1940, who do you think would have been the Democratic candidate?

[ansel12]

I know that he wouldn’t have won in 1940 if people had voted like Protestants did.

Why are you asking me the bizarre questions that you are?

I give up, who would have run as the democrat nominee in 1940 if FDR had not, and how many of the people who voted for Roosevelt in 1944 would have voted for him if they had realized that he would be dead within three months after starting his fourth term, and why do you care?

[x]

VP John Garner and James Farley, DNC head and Postmaster General, both wanted it. Cordell Hull and Millard Tydings both got a smattering of votes at the convention.

Rumor was that old Joe Kennedy wanted it as well (but he and Farley were both Catholics and unlikely to be elected; James Byrnes had been a Catholic and become an Episcopalian, which probably disqualified him as well).

It's impossible to say what would have happened if FDR hadn't decided to run again. He really held the party together North and South. There would have been real inter-party strife if FDR wasn't in the picture.

[Pelham]

Wendell Wilkie.

He was an FDR clone despite being a Republican.