Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indiana. Harry G. Leslie, new Governor of Indiana, has never been in jail, a distinction which neither of Indiana's last two Republican Governors can unblushingly boast...
Iowa. Re-elected Governor John Hammill of Iowa helped keep supposedly embattled farmers in line for President-Elect Hoover. Having talked with Nominee Hoover on the latter's journey west. Governor Hammill took airplane, flew to Des Moines, told Iowa's Legislature that Mr. Hoover would certainly solve the farm problem (TIME, July...
Kansas. Newly-elected Governor Clyde...
Minnesota. Styled the "Coolidge of Minnesota" because of his economies and tax reform, re-elected Governor Theodore Christianson, Republican, is a close friend of Andrew Volstead...
Texas. Red haired, dry-minded re-elected Governor Dan Moody of Texas, whose state voted for Hoover, made a post-election statement blaming the "alcoholism" of Democratic National Chairman John J. Raskob...