Word: maxey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governor of his old home state. The Democrats badly needed a candidate like Spaatz. It was almost certain that popular Republican Governor Edward Martin would challenge blustering Democratic Boss Joe Guffey for his 11-year-old seat in the U.S. Senate. This would leave either Chief Justice George W. Maxey of the State Supreme Court, or Lieut. Governor John C. Bell Jr., scion of a Philadelphia Main Line family, free to run for governor. Even though President Franklin Roosevelt carried Pennsylvania by 105,000 votes in the 1944 election, a Martin-Maxey or Martin-Bell ticket would be hard...