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...Republican State Central Committee got the news that it was hoping to hear. From John Sherman Cooper came a telegram saying that he would give up his job as Ambassador to India after all, and would run for the unexpired (four years) U.S. Senate term of the late Alben Barkley...
...Elected in 1946 to fill the unexpired term (two years) of A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, who resigned to become U.S. Commissioner of Baseball; defeated in 1948 by Virgil Chapman; elected in 1952 to fill the unexpired term (two years) after Chapman died; defeated in 1954 by Alben Barkley...
...Democratic State Central Commit tee, firmly under Clements' control even before last week's voting, is expected to name a Clements man as his running mate in Kentucky's other 1956 senatorial contest-for the unexpired term of the late Alben Barkley. About the only consolation left Happy Chandler was that under state law, he can appoint someone to serve in the Barkley post until the November general election...
Republican hopes for electing two Senators from traditionally Democratic Kentucky shone brightly during the time G.O.P. leaders thought they could coax popular ex-Senator John Sherman Cooper, now Ambassador to India, back into partisan politics to run for Barkley's seat. But they dimmed when Cooper, in Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston for minor throat surgery, decided against running last week because his job in India "is only partly accomplished." Cooper's decision not only forced the Republicans to dig up another candidate; it weakened the G.O.P. ticket and hence the chances of Earle Clements' November opponent...
Died. Alben William Barkley, 78, Vice President of the U.S. under Harry Truman, junior Senator from Kentucky; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Va. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...