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Clark defeated incumbent James Duff in the Nov. 6 election, despite the fact that Eisenhower swept Pennsylvania by 592,000 votes...
Thus, Pennsylvanians ousted Republican Senator James H. Duff, original Ike-man who had been a sulky, do-little Senator, in favor of personable Democrat Joseph Clark. But they gave Ike a smashing 592,000-vote plurality, and the G.O.P. regained full control of the state legislature. Similarly. Washington State re-elected popular Democrat Warren Magnuson to the Senate over Governor Arthur Langlie, on the basis of Maggie's generally hard work in the Senate and his shower of favors to his state from Washington, D.C.-but the state's hard-working Republican incumbents were returned to Congress from...
...Pennsylvania the volunteers (including a solid representation from labor) played a key part in Joe Clark's victory over Republican Senator James H. Duff. Clark, many a Pennsylvania Democrat is sure, is just the kind of politician the party is looking for to fill the vacuum at the top. Like Adlai Stevenson, Harvard-man Clark is wealthy and articulate, but Clark is far ahead of Stevenson in his ability to get his ideas across to the plain citizen. (And, unlike Stevenson, quipped a Pittsburgh newsman, his name is Joe.) When Clark ran for mayor of Philadelphia five years...
...Pennsylvania, where almost 4,500,000 senatorial votes were cast, onetime Philadelphia Reform Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr., 55, defeated Republican Senator James H. ("Big Red") Duff by 20,000 votes to become an important new figure on the national Democratic scene...
Pennsylvania: An outside chance that Eisenhower's coattails might be enough for G.O.P. Senator James Duff to win the Senate race by defeating Phila delphia's former Democratic Mayor Joseph Clark, who is now leading. Another outside chance that Clark's coattails might be enough for Adlai...