On January 14, 1949, Bruce Bromley was appointed by Governor Thomas E. Dewey to fill the vacancy temporarily.
[1] On June 28, 1949, Robert F. Wagner resigned from the U.S. Senate, due to ill health.
On July 7, John Foster Dulles was appointed by Governor Dewey to fill the vacancy temporarily.
[2] The Republican State Committee nominated the incumbents Dulles and Bromley to succeed themselves.
The American Labor Party made no nominations and urged its members not to vote for any candidate.