Word: trafton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broderick was one of many: in the nation's first 1956 general election* the reign in Maine fell plainly on the Democrats. Democratic Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 42, running for a second term against Willis A. Trafton Jr., 37, speaker of the state house of representatives, had been conceded an edge, but he was highly surprised by his 179,697-to-123,784 victory. Lewiston Lawyer and Democratic State Chairman Frank M. Coffin fared even more spectacularly by winning, for the first time in 22 years, the Democratic congressional seat in the industrial (Lewiston) Second District. Democrat James...
...earliest general election, Maine voters will toss their traditional straws into the political wind Sept. 10. Holding the attention of most of the weather-vane watchers is the race between Maine's first Democratic governor in 20 years, Edmund S. Muskie, 42, and his Republican challenger, Willis A. Trafton Jr., a wealthy, 37-year-old attorney from Auburn. Muskie has campaigned hard on a record that some of Maine's most influential newspapers, e.g., the independent Gannett chain, have found good, while Trafton has appealed largely to Maine's Republicanism. By campaigning with U.S. Senators Margaret Chase...
Muskie and Trafton were running neck and neck, the First and Third Congressional Districts looked safely Republican, but in the Second (Lewiston-Augusta) District, Frank M. Coffin, 36, Democratic state chairman, was given an even chance to become the first Democratic Congressman from Maine in 22 years...
...this time Maine's Republican leaders, unaccustomed as they are to being out of power, thought they had a match for Ed Muskie. Winner of the G.O.P. primary over two opponents was Willis A. ("Bill") Trafton Jr., tall (6 ft. 3 in.), genial young (37) father of six and speaker of the house, who never before had campaigned outside his home city of Auburn (pop. 24,500). An inveterate pipe smoker with a penchant for bow ties, Lawyer Trafton has much of the same boyish appeal that has worked so well for Ed Muskie, but is rated a poorer...