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Politicians soon shared the cowboy respect for Elfego. At the state GOP convention in 1911, Republicans nominated him for Congress. (He lost by 119 votes.) His last major campaign was in 1934, when, nearing 70, he lost a fight for the governorship...
...York figures were one example of how decisive the serviceman's vote might be in a close race. Albany received some 590,000 serviceman ballot applications. (In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt's plurality in New York was 224,440; Tom Dewey lost his 1938 try at the governorship by less than...
...their biggest sweep since 1928, Republicans in Maine last week re-elected three G.O.P. Congressmen and voted Republican Horace A. Hildreth, 41, into the governorship. GOPsters had reason to be elated...
...Bradford now had to take his place on the escalator again; the Lieutenant-Governorship is the next-to-last step. If he wins in the November finals (as seems likely), Massachusetts may some day have its second Governor Bradford in 300 years...
Democrat Al Smith beat him unmercifully in 1924. He lost the governorship by 109,000 votes, though Calvin Coolidge carried New York State by 870,000. From then on, Young Teddy never won an office. His two big political posts-Governor of Puerto Rico and Governor General of the Philippines-came to him by Presidential appointments. Later, the jest was that the Oyster Bay Roosevelts were out of season. He lived quietly in a $90,000 home he built in 1938 at Oyster Bay, served successively as board chairman of American Express and vice president of Doubleday, Doran...