Word: termers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michigan, Republican challengers ousted all five of the Democratic Congressmen who were newly elected in 1964. Biggest upset occurred in the Seventh District (Flint and environs), where Republican Donald W. Riegle Jr., 28, literally quit school?he was working on a business doctorate at Harvard?to take on First-Termer John Mackie, 46, Democratic wheelhorse and longtime state highway commissioner. Riegle, who tirelessly trod city streets and crashed Democratic rallies, buried Mackie...
Apart from Culver in Iowa, only two other Democratic freshmen survived?Andrew Jacobs and Lee Hamilton in Indiana?largely because of skillful gerrymandering by the Democratic legislature. However, the G.O.P. unexpectedly unseated a veteran Hoosier House fixture, eight-termer Winfield K. Denton, who lost to Management Consultant Roger H. Zion, 45. Reflecting farmer unrest, the G.O.P. captured, by one estimate, 57% of the rural vote v. 49.7% in the Goldwater debacle. Of 19 Democrats newly elected in 1964 throughout the region, 16 were retired. In all, Republicans picked up a net gain of 22 House seats in the Midwest?almost...
Republicans racked up only slightly less impressive victories in the congressional races. The Democrats lost ten of their 48 Representatives, among them such Capitol Hill veterans as California's seven-termer Harlan Hagen, defeated by Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias. In Senate contests no incumbent was defeated, and the Democrats had only one loss, the Oregon seat of retiring Maurine Neuberger that was captured by Mark Hatfield...
...while a young Republican bitterly denounced a Democratic committee chairman-and, in the process, scolded the House itself. The victim of the attack was Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr., chairman of the Education and Labor Committee (as usual, Powell was absent at the time). The attacker: second-termer John Milan Ashbrook, 34, attorney, Johnstown, Ohio, newspaper publisher and former national chairman of the Young Republican National Federation...
Green Pastures. First-Termer Romney is in an entirely different situation. He is ambitious, and he will certainly be a serious presidential contender in '64 if he can make a reasonable start on whipping Michigan's problems. But that is an awfully large if. The savage factionalism of Michigan's politics has resulted in economic stagnation for the state. Romney was elected on the promise that he could and would get everyone working together to cure Michigan's ills; it would be suicide if, at this stage, he were to cast hopeful glances toward Washington...