Wendell Willkie was born on 18 February 1892 in Elwood, Indiana, USA. He was married to Edith Willkie. He died on 8 October 1944 in New York City, New York, USA.
As the Republican nominee for president in 1940, he ran on a platform that vigorously opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies, especially the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
