Birth Name: Thomas Edmund Dewey
Date of Birth: March 24, 1902
Place of Birth: Owosso, Michigan, U.S.
Date of Death: March 16, 1971
Place of Death: Miami, Florida, U.S.
Ethnicity: English, one quarter Irish
Thomas E. Dewey was an American politician. A Republican, he served as the District Attorney of New York County, from January 1, 1938 to January 1, 1942, and the 47th Governor of New York, from January 1, 1943 to December 31, 1954.
Thomas was the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States in 1944 and 1948. He was also a candidate for the Republican Party’s 1940 presidential nomination.
Thomas was the son of Anne (Thomas) and George Martin Dewey. He had English and Irish ancestry, and, on his father’s side, deep roots in the Colonial United States, going back to the 1600s.
Thomas’s paternal grandfather was George Martin Dewey (the son of Granville Dewey and Harriet B. Freeman). Granville was the son of Martin Dewey and Hannah Waterman.
Thomas’s paternal grandmother was Emma Bingham (the daughter of Lemuel Bingham and Lydia L. Dowd). Lemuel was the son of Asa Bingham and Hannah Lord.
Thomas’s maternal grandparents were Alfred Tracy Thomas (the son of George Thomas and Eliza Mary) and Agusta Margaret Emery Corrigan (the daughter of John Corrigan and Anne). Alfred was born in Canada, to English parents. Agusta was Irish, born in Dublin.
Sources: Genealogy of Thomas E. Dewey – https://www.geni.com
Thomas E. Dewey on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Thomas’s maternal grandparents, Alfred Tracy Thomas and Agusta Margaret Emery Corrigan, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org