Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delaware: Conservative Republican "Honest John" Williams, 54, beat down the substantial threat of ex-Governor Elbert N. Carvel, 48, to win a third term...
Florida: Democrat Spessard Holland, 66, ambled to his third term...
...shooting match turned into a hands-down victory for Congressman Eugene McCarthy, 42, who buried forever the legend that a Roman Catholic could not be elected to statewide office in Minnesota, rode the well-oiled Democrat-Farmer-Labor machine to a thoroughgoing victory over the Republicans' two-term incumbent, Ikeman Ed Thye...
Nevada: Mossback Republican George W. Malone, 68, lost his third-term race to middle-of-the-road Democrat Howard W. Cannon, 46, Las Vegas city attorney for ten years, less on political grounds than because Las Vegans, who recently surpassed Reno in population, were peeved because all three Nevadans in Congress were from Reno...
...Maryland, a revamped Democratic organization easily held its own four seats, also picked up the remaining three from Republicans, including the Eastern Shore seat of six-term G.O.P. Congressman Edward T. Miller...