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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missouri: Democrat Stuart Symington, 57, wanted to win big to brighten his prospects for the 1960 presidential nomination. So he ran hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Senate | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Nevada: Mossback Republican George W. Malone, 68, lost his third-term race to middle-of-the-road Democrat Howard W. Cannon, 46, Las Vegas city attorney for ten years, less on political grounds than because Las Vegans, who recently surpassed Reno in population, were peeved because all three Nevadans in Congress were from Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Senate | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...Vermont, Political Amateur William H. Meyer, 44, became the first Democrat sent to Washington in 106 years by edging ex-Governor Harold J. Arthur for the state's lone House seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The House | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...nowhere was the Democratic gain more impressive than in Connecticut. And in Connecticut none of the Democratic victories were more impressive than two: 1 ) in Eastern Connecticut's Second District, onetime (1951-53) Ambassador to India Chester Bowles, 57, toppled five-term Republican Horace Seely-Brown Jr. ; 2) in heavily Republican Fairfield County, Democratic Lawyer Donald J. Irwin defeated Albert P. Morano, became the first Democrat elected in an off-year election in the county in 28 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The House | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...while Democrats were running strong for House seats in other sections of the U.S., a handful of embattled Republicans in the South held firm. Five G.O.P. Southern Congressmen retained their seats, notably among them Dallas' Bruce Alger, who held off the strong challenge of Democrat Barefoot Sanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The House | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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