Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georgia (12): Humphrey had the edge until a delegation-seating squabble in Chicago angered many moderates. Now Wallace is ahead...
Others are working to take over the party and remake it to their own specifications. New Hampshire's David Hoeh, New York's Al Lowenstein, Georgia's Julian Bond and Wisconsin's Donald Peterson, who talked himself hoarse making McCarthyite motions at the convention, are hoping eventually to gain control of the party machinery through the New Democratic Coalition, headquartered in Minneapolis...
...their X beside Richard Nixon's name this Nov. 5 will actually be choosing seven Republicans, among them Dean S. Evans Sr., 47, a Salina grain and cattle dealer and regular party contributor. Kansans who prefer Hubert Humphrey will actually vote for seven Democrats, including Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark Gray, 68, a Topeka bank president and U.S. Treasurer under Harry Truman...
More trouble developed in 1824. With the Federalist Party all but dead, the presidential vote split among four Democrats. Kentucky's Henry Clay and Georgia's William H. Crawford each won 13% of the popular vote, and their electoral votes were enough to deny a majority to Andrew Jackson, the popular winner with 152,933 votes (42.2%). In the House, Clay threw his support to the runner-up, John Quincy Adams, who had collected 31.9% of the popular vote. Clay's action made Adams President, and by no small coincidence, Clay became Secretary of State. Though Jackson...
...Most of them, too, have decided to move. Last month more than 100 members of a church in Avenal, 50 miles southwest of Fresno, emigrated to Kennett, Mo. A 50-member congregation in Porterville transferred to Independence, Mo. One hundred members of a church in Lompoc also trekked to Georgia. The Rev. Robert Theobold, pastor of the Friendly Bible Apostolic Church at Port Hueneme, plans to resettle his congregation of 90 men, women and children in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Theobold, who claims to have received mystical confirmation of Abernathy's vision, believes that the earthquakes "will leave Southern California like...