Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iowa, Democratic gains extended to the House, e.g., onetime Young Democrats National President Neal E. Smith defeated eight-term Republican Paul Cunningham, whose past pluralities had been dropping and who had lost important labor support...
...nowhere was the Democratic gain more impressive than in Connecticut. And in Connecticut none of the Democratic victories were more impressive than two: 1 ) in Eastern Connecticut's Second District, onetime (1951-53) Ambassador to India Chester Bowles, 57, toppled five-term Republican Horace Seely-Brown Jr. ; 2) in heavily Republican Fairfield County, Democratic Lawyer Donald J. Irwin defeated Albert P. Morano, became the first Democrat elected in an off-year election in the county in 28 years...
Arizona: Riding in Senator Barry Goldwater's wake. Republicans turned a predicted loss into an unexpected gain, elected Republican Paul Fannin, 51, over State Attorney General Robert Morrison, whose youthful jail term (for bad checks) got plenty of campaign publicity...
Connecticut: In a record-busting burst of bipartisanship, voters handed Incumbent Abraham Ribicoff, 48, the biggest plurality for a Democrat in state history -and his second term...
Kansas: For the first time since it became a state, Kansas handed a second 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...