Word: voter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballot that confronted Wisconsin voters was a complex maze. For Roosevelt there were two slates: one an anti-Hoover-Democrat group headed by Gustave Keller, Appleton lawyer, chummy with La Folletteers; one a "Roosevelt-Farley" ticket, headed by Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan politician, made up of machine Democrats. For John Nance Garner was a slate bossed by John J. Slocum, Assembly clerk, expected to attract many an anti-Term III voter who would rather protest a Roosevelt re-election than choose between Messrs. Dewey and Vandenberg...
...Civil War Irish-run political machines kept the Democratic Party alive in the North. They virtually elected Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. Secretary of State John Hay forever claimed that his hands were tied by bitter Irish anti-British sentiment, and it was the Irish voter who not only forced Cleveland to take a strong stand against Great Britain in the Venezuelan crisis of 1895-96 but who also helped to prevent a U. S.-British alliance in the Far East...