But FDR insisted that without Wallace on the ticket he would decline renomination, and when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt came to Chicago to vouch for Wallace, he won the vice-presidential nomination with 626 votes to 329 for House Speaker William B. Bankhead of Alabama.
He would decline renomination. This is without Wallace on the ticket. This was what FDR insisted. But, he won the vice-presidential nomination with 626 votes to 329 for House Speaker William B. Bankhead of Alabama. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt came to Chicago. This was to vouch for Wallace.