Wendell Willkie Size:M: 75 x 60cm dressed in a black coat

dressed in a black coat

In 1935 he became the first man to better 300 mph at 301

Pete Birrell

The driver tips his hat to the photographer

Wendell Willkie Size:M: 75 x 60cm dressed in a black coatWendell Willkie, American politician, Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA, 1940. Wilkie (1892 1940) at a frontier celebration at Cheyenne during the 1940 presidential election campaign. A corporate lawyer who had never held any political office, he was a surprise choice for the Republican nomination. Wilkie campaigned against what he described as the inefficiencies and anti business policies of the New Deal but was defeated by Democratic incumbent Franklin D