Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prestige went up, the Saltonstall political fortunes went down. Great-Grandfather Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845) was president of the Massachusetts Senate, member of Congress, first mayor of Salem in the Golden Age of Emerson and Thoreau. Grandfather Leverett Saltonstall, a member of the then-flourishing species of Yankee Democrats, was a good friend of Democrat Grover Cleveland, and thus became Collector of the Port of Boston. The present governor's father, also a Yankee Democrat, couldn't even get elected to the state legislature in his try for office...
...elected to the state legislature (known since 1629 as the General Court). For 16 years he was a representative; for the last eight years speaker, a record unexcelled in the Bay State since 1802. He spent much of that time trying to stop the budget extravagances of ambitious Democratic governors. Then, in 1938, Republican Saltonstall won the governorship from tempestuous Democrat James Michael Curley. Some said that the unpopular Curley beat himself, but Saltonstall was re-elected in 1940, although the Democrats that year carried the state for Franklin Roosevelt by 137,000 votes. And since his re-election...
...election in Oklahoma's second District, Democrat William G. Stigler (a half-Choctaw) beat Republican Edwin Oliver Clark (a quarter-Choctaw) for Congress by 3,700 votes. The election was advertised as a crucial test of whether the long Republican trend could be stopped (TIME, March 27). Both sides had poured in money and big-gun campaign speakers...
...last time a Republican won in the Second District was in 1920. Democratic majorities are as normal a product of the Second as corn and cotton. But in 1942 Democrat Jack Nichols squeaked through to re-election by only 365 votes. The Republican who almost beat him in 1942 is the man the Democrats are worried about now: Edwin O. Clark...
...Democrats have gone the Republicans one better at red-blooded vote-getting. Their candidate is half-Choctaw. Bill Stigler, 53, dark, with straight black hair, has been for several years the Choctaw Nation's attorney. He is also a World War I veteran and past American Legion state commander. Democrat Stigler and Republican Clark are the rival attorneys of the town of Stigler (pop. 1,572), named for the Democrat's family. Dopesters are backing Stigler to win, but the Democrats who sent the hurry call for Alben Barkley were in no mood to trust to form...