When her milkman expressed fondness for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she left a note saying, "No Willkie, no milkie".

The Vice President began making regular commercial airline stops in St. Louis.

She resided in a seven-room apartment in St. Louis's prestigious Central West End neighborhood, near both Washington University and the renowned Forest Park.

Outside, an estimated 5,000 people cheered the couple as they departed in a black convertible the groom gave as a wedding gift.

[3] When asked about his wife's politics, the vice president said, "She got swept off her feet by Willkie, but now she's back in the fold."

He sought the Democratic presidential nomination at the party convention in 1952 but withdrew when labor leaders on whom he had counted declined to support him.

He defeated Republican John Sherman Cooper for another term in the U.S. Senate in 1954, serving until his death on March 30, 1956.