IncumbentPresidentHarry S. Truman was the last President who was unaffected by the term limit imposed under the 22nd Amendment, but decided as early as 1950 that he would not seek another term. Eisenhower was the first Republican presidential nominee to win Minnesota (which had otherwise normally been a Republican stronghold) since the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and the first Republican elected to the presidency since Herbert Hoover left office in 1933.
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United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1952[2]
^"U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Retrieved October 24, 2013. Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination