Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico: An outside hope to hang on to his seat, three-time Republican Governor Edwin L. Mechem, 46, fell before Democrat John Burroughs, 51, a peanut processor from Portales...
...work referendum. For patient, politically magic Mike Di Salle, 50, onetime chief of Harry Truman's Office of Price Stabilization, who challenged O'Neill unsuccessfully two years ago, that cinched it. Counting on a heavy labor vote in highly industrial Ohio, as well as widespread dissatisfaction with Governor O'Neill, Di Salle was not disappointed. His winning margin: 3 to 2. Right-to-work's losing margin...
Oklahoma: Democratic Nominee J. Howard Edmondson won with no contest, became the youngest (33) Governor in state history...
William Fife Knowland had been U.S. Senator from California for 13 years, was the Republican leader on Capitol Hill, and almost certainly could have been re-elected for another term. But that was not enough for big. bullheaded Bill Knowland. He wanted to be Governor of California, and he had a longer-range eye on the presidency of the U.S. He went home, crudely shoved aside Governor Goodwin Knight, forcing Knight to run for the Senate. Bitterly split by the Knowland power play, the California G.O.P. organization tore itself to shreds, and Knowland was buried in the ruins by pleasant...
...Wednesday Rockefeller held his first victory press conference, fended off peppering questions about 1960. "I have only one interest now," he said, "and that is to be Governor. Honest to God, I have no other plans...