Previously, as a lawyer for Southern and Commonwealth, and later as President of a utilities holding company, he led the legal claims against the Tennessee Valley authority.  
On the campaign trail, reporters accidentally transposed his first and middle names, a mistake he never corrected.  While chairman of 20th Century Fox film corporation, he authored One World, a plea for international cooperation and activism.  Previously, as a lawyer for Southern and Commonwealth, and later as President of a utilities holding company, he led the legal claims against the Tennessee Valley authority.  A former democrat, his support for business enterprise and effective criticism of the New Deal attracted widespread grass roots support and catapulted him onto his party's national ticket. FTP, name this unsuccessful Republican nominee for President in 1940.
On the campaign trail, reporters accidentally transposed his first and middle names, a mistake he never corrected.  
Lewis Wendell Willkie or Wendell Lewis Willkie