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...West Virginia, a slate-wide Democratic defection to the G.O.P. touched off by corruption charges, helped ex-Senator (1942-48) Chapman Revercomb, 61, win handily over Governor William C. Marland in their race for the remainder of the late Harley Kilgore's term...
West Virginia: Adlai leads by margin that may be surprisingly narrow. Republican Candidate Chapman Revercomb has strong sleeper chance against Democratic Governor William Marland for the Senate. 8 Wisconsin: Ike should win. So should Republican Senator Alexander Wiley...
...West Virginia, running for the U.S. Senate seat of the late Harley M. Kilgore, ex-Senator Chapman Revercomb led a Republican field of five, and Governor William C. Marland edged past State Attorney General John G. Fox to win the Democratic nomination. But in the race for governor, Democrats turned their backs on Marland-backed Milton J. Ferguson, picked Congressman Robert H. Mollohan to run against the G.O.P.'s Cecil H. Underwood, minority leader of the state house...
...Marland appointed Laird to the state board of education, where he faced the segregation problem, came to a personal conclusion that "the Supreme Court's opinions are the law of the land." (West Virginia has moved as rapidly toward integration as any border state.) Later Marland switched Laird to the state tax commission. The new Senator is a Presbyterian, a Lion, a Mason and an American Legionnaire (eligibility: a six-month Navy hitch in World War II during which he rose to seaman second class before receiving a medical discharge...
While Laird was being sworn into the Senate (and parrying questions about any intention of remaining there), Democrats at home jockeyed for election to the Kilgore term, which runs until Jan. 3, 1959. Among the contestants: ex-Classmate William C. Marland...