Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term to a Democratic Governor. The winner, Banker George Docking, shrewdly spent his first two years building a smooth-running donkey engine in this G.O.P. stronghold, won friends in thrifty Kansas by vetoing a state sales tax increase, relied on bounteous crops and rural content, neatly knocked down promising Republican Contender Clyde Reed...
Maryland: In a no-personality contest between longtime (17 years) State Comptroller J. Millard Tawes and Republican Congressman James P. S. Devereux, ex-Marine war hero, Democratic Workhorse Tawes coasted all the way in to recapture the Governor's chair for Democrats...
Minnesota: Relaxed behind a tradition of Democrat-Farm-Labor Party strength, Incumbent Democrat Orville L. Freeman, 40, seized an early and commanding lead over Republican George MacKinnon, held...
Nevada: Swept under in the Democratic wave: Republican Governor Charles H. Russell, beaten by Democrat Grant Sawyer...
...Hampshire: Normally Republican, the state stayed that way, elected Republican Wesley Powell to fill the shoes of retiring Governor Lane Dwinell...