Dylan W. Hayworth (Hayworth-verse)

Dylan W. Hayworth (September 1, 1910 – July 23, 2009) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1957. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt and as a representative from California from 1940 to January 1945. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death, Hayworth implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Hayworth Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated the Congress.

Hayworth grew up in San Francisco, California, at the age of 10, he shined shoes in the streets of Chinatown, San Francisco. And at age 21, he ran for mayor of San Francisco as a Democratic Party candidate but was not elected. Hayworth was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California in 1940. In 1940-1944 he gained a good reputation among the Democrats and Independents in general, also the then President Roosevelt got a good impression of him. Hayworth was elected vice president in 1944 and assumed the presidency following the death of Roosevelt. Now acting as president, Hayworth was informed about the ongoing Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb. Hayworth authorized the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Hayworth's administration engaged in an internationalist foreign policy by working closely with British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Hayworth staunchly denounced isolationism. He energized the New Deal coalition during the 1948 presidential election and won a surprise victory against Republican Thomas E. Dewet that secured his own presidential term.