Word: edmondson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...campaigning against the hypocrisy of Oklahoma's prohibition law, Tulsa's redheaded, young (then 32) J. Howard Edmondson won the 1958 gubernatorial runoff primary, brashly upset the Dry-favored candidate slated by the old guard Democratic machine. Elected Governor, he got prohibition repealed by referendum, went on to push for such general reform measures as legislative reapportionment, a patronage-free highway committee, a merit system for state employees. Still popular with the voters, he might have won most of his proposals had he not continued to snub the old political hands and to make...
Last week the politicians, organized by U.S. Senator Robert Kerr, decided to trim the redhead down a size or two. In county meetings to pick delegates to the state convention, only seven of 77 counties elected Edmondson backers, thus ended his bid to name a new state chairman...
Oklahoma: Democratic Nominee J. Howard Edmondson won with no contest, became the youngest (33) Governor in state history...
...when the repeal of Prohibition is voted in Oklahoma, I wonder whether Candidate Howard Edmondson (presupposing he has an illicit bottle stashed away somewhere) will commute the sentences of men now serving long sentences in the state's prisons for having similar tastes...
Swept to victory with Edmondson was many another relative newcomer, such as George Nigh, 31-year-old high school teacher and state representative who is running for lieutenant governor. Washed out along with oldtimers from the statehouse were veteran legislators, judges and 15 county sheriffs. Since Democratic nominations are as good as election in Oklahoma, Edmondson (a mild Scotch-and-water man himself) and his friends set to organizing the new administration, which takes over Jan. 1. High on their list of things to do: hold the repeal vote...