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...Hickey's campaign effort was severely hampered by a heart attack last month; Simpson, while sending condolences, kept right on running at a rapid pace. He appears to be trailing right now, but a lot can happen in Wyoming before election...
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...
Wyoming. The unhappy distinction of 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...
...moralists, the memoir ends badly. Eventually Hickey returned to India, and without much effort won wealth and honor as an attorney. When he left India for the last time at the age of 59, he disposed of a household of 63 servants and five horses. The narrative he wrote captures his era as bawdily and well as do Hogarth's engravings. But in any good memoir it is the man, not the times, whose flavor dominates. Hickey, neither as deep as Boswell nor as intense as Casanova, still was something other than a fool with a strong constitution...