Word: blanton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only in the South, which never did sour on Nixon. Perhaps the freshest political face in the region belongs to Tennessee's Lamar Alexander, 34. Energetic and coolly intelligent, Alexander is given a good chance of becoming Governor by defeat-big three-term Democratic Congress man Ray Blanton. But the Democrats are not without promising candidates of their own - most notably Arkansas' Governor Dale Bumpers, 49, who is expected to win a Senate seat handily after having beaten the redoubtable Senator William Fulbright in the primary...
Nixon--easily took Tennessee's ten electoral votes with over 60 per cent of the popular vote, and youthful Senator Howard Baker handily turned back a challenge from Democrat Ray Blanton...