Word: hetfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew that Republican Representative Clifford Case, who had resigned . to take a Ford Foundation job, was highly popular. So he promised to follow in Case's voting footsteps: e.g., he promised wholehearted support of the Eisenhower foreign policy. Williams' Republican opponent was another Plainfield lawyer, George Hetfield. The Democratic nominee had once served as the Hetfields' baby sitter, later was a law clerk in Hetfield's office. But he quickly found a label for his old friend: "An Old Guard Republican...
...result: Williams 68,793, Hetfield 66,796. Across the U.S. Williams' victory was widely analyzed as a slap at the Eisenhower Administration. Williams said he thought his biggest weapon was his pledge to carry on in the path of Eisenhower Republican Clifford Case...
...only contest for U.S. House of Representatives, another Democrat, Harrison A. Williams, Jr., led Republican George F. Hetfield in the 6th New Jersey district 2 to 1 in 100 of 305 polling districts...