Word: auditor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suitcases. But by last fall Mike was getting restless again. He tried with little success to beat out State Auditor Joseph ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate and the honor of being shellacked by Republican Bob Taft. He was already beginning to think about 1952 when the telephone rang last November and Washington offered him the OPS job. By coincidence, it was Eric Johnston who put Mike Di Salle up for the job-weeks before Johnston himself moved into the mobilization picture as Di Salle's immediate superior. Johnston had heard a lot about...
...Ohio election, Senator Robert H. Taft was out in front from the start, defeating Democratic State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson to retain the seat for the G.O.P...
Dever's Lieutenant Governor Charles F. Sullivan won over Republican Laurence Curtis '16. His Secretary of State Edward J. Cronin defeated Russell A. Wood '03. Dever's present State Treasurer and Auditor also triumphed...
...running on an opposing ticket, has remained peculiarly silent on the Taft-Ferguson fight. Organized labor's choice was Murray Lincoln, farm bureau leader, but labor failed to exercise enough push at the state convention to nominate its man. Instead to convention came up with Ferguson, the State Auditor, a gent who is likable, entirely up-right, and has a handsome wife and eight children. He is also entirely new to politics above the State Auditor Level...
...intangible to sell, however--popularity. Ferguson as State Auditor has been an extraordinarily successful politician. In 1948 when Harry Truman carried Ohio by 7,701 voted, Ferguson won reelection by 291,887 votes, the most impressive majority the state has ever given a Democrat...