Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (died 1944)

Wendell Willkie

American lawyer and corporate executive (1892–1944)

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…