Word: clauson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twang, was a first-rate harness racer until his wife made him quit after he had a bad spill; now he drives a collection of antique Packards. Reed entered the state senate in 1957, and as senate president succeeded automatically to the governorship on the death of Democrat Clinton Clauson. His ten-month first term was lacklustre; in his second he promises to improve state schools...
Maine. Middle-of-the-road Republican Incumbent John Hathaway Reed, 39, state senate president when he was sworn in as interim Governor after Democrat Clinton Clauson died in office last December, faces a well-known opponent: trim, laconic Democrat Frank Coffin, 41. Representative from Maine's Second District. Hard working Congressman Coffin is still the betting choice, but Potato Farmer John Reed has cut heavily into an early Democratic lead...
...tradition-loving Maine, Democratic Governor Clinton Amos Clauson lived a notably unorthodox political life. To begin with, he was not a Down-Easter at all; he came east from Iowa as a young man, set up practice as a chiropractor in Waterville, later prospered as a fuel-oil dealer, and was elected Waterville's mayor in 1956. Then, as a conservative Demo crat, he skyrocketed out of comparative obscurity in 1958 to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination away from the candidate of the Democratic liberals, led by Maine's popular Governor Ed Muskie (now U.S. Senator). Clauson...
Last week, a few hours after a hale and hearty appearance at a banquet in Lewiston, Governor Clauson died in his sleep at 64 - the fourth Governor to die in office in the state's history. Since the state constitution has no provision for a lieu tenant governor, his successor was a Republican, John H. Reed, 38, president of the state senate. Reed was sworn in by Maine's chief justice in a somber evening ceremony in the Capitol's Executive Council Chamber. Said Republican Reed of Democrat Clauson: "He was a much beloved...