Word: guille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taftmen did not try to prove that individual Ike supporters were, in fact, Democrats. The national committee simply accepted their general assertions that this was the case. On that point, former Representative Ben Guill, the only Texas Republican elected to Congress in the past 20 years, had a sharp comment. Said Ikeman Guill: "The people who attended those conventions conformed with the election code of Texas; they sent the declarations saying T am a Republican.' They did it in good faith, and I don't know how in the name of heaven the state committee down at Mineral...
...Texas elected its first Republican Congressman in 19 years and the fourth in its history. In a special election in the Panhandle, likable Ben Guill, 40, of Pampa, onetime lieutenant in the Navy, won over ten Democrats seeking the seat of Representative Eugene Worley, 41, also a Navy veteran, who resigned to take a judgeship. Guill got only 8,000 of the 35,000 votes cast, but the rest were shredded among his Democratic opponents. "I'm no intellectual giant and I don't have any ideas about going to the capital and changing up the Government," said...