Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Republican Mark Hatfield was re-elected to the governorship over Robert Thornton, and Democrat Wayne Morse was re-elected as Senator over Sig Unander...
...Scrantonian (geographically only), and well aware of the kinship between TIME and Bill Scranton, I was quite prepared to read a completely biased article [Oct. 19]. Your treatment of both candidates for governorship of Pennsylvania was stunningly unprejudiced...
Wyoming governor J.J. Hickey demonstrated this two years ago by resigning the governorship and appointing himself Senator when Republican Keith Thomson died shortly after being elected to the Senate...
Hickey is now engaged in a tough election battle, and Democrats are concerned about losing his seat. Former Gov. Milward Simpson, whom Hickey defeated for the governorship in 1958, is trying for a political comeback and has decided on a very conservative approach to national affairs. Although no flaming liberal, reluctant New Frontiersman Hickey presents Wyoming voters some contrast with Simpson's Goldwaterism...
...being the Democratic Senator most likely to lose his seat to a Republican belongs to J. J. Hickey. The Republican: ex-Governor Milward Simpson. The last time the two met, in 1958, Hickey beat Simpson. But when Republican Senator-elect Keith Thompson died in late 1960, Hickey resigned the governorship and turned the chair over to Secretary of State Jack Gage, who thereupon appointed Hickey to replace Thompson. Hickey's ploy stirred up a lot of voter discontent. Last week, just after he returned from Washington to get his campaign going, Hickey suffered a heart attack that will keep...