웬델 윌키

소개

웬들 루이스 윌키(Wendell Lewis Willkie, 1892년 2월 18일 ~ 1944년 10월 8일)는 미국의 변호사이자 기업 경영자였으며 1940년 미국 대통령 선거의 공화당 측 후보였다.

Wendell Lewis Willkie was an American lawyer, corporate executive and the 1940 Republican nominee for president of the United States. Willkie appealed to many convention delegates as the Republican field's only interventionist: although the U.S. remained neutral prior to Pearl Harbor, he favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to support Britain and other Allies. His Democratic opponent, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had made campaign pledges against U.S. involvement in World War II, won the 1940 election with about 55% of the popular vote and took the electoral college vote by a wide margin.