Bookcover of Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election, 1954
Booktitle:
Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election, 1954
United States Senate, Politics of the United States
StruPress
(2012-04-03
)
eligible for voucher
ISBN-13:
978-613-8-54686-3
ISBN-10:
6138546865
EAN:
9786138546863
Book language:
English
Blurb/Shorttext:
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1954 was held on November 2. In what is considered a crucial realigning election for the state, Democratic State Senator George Leader defeated Republican incumbent Lieutenant Governor Lloyd Wood by a surprisingly large margin. Entering the 1954 campaign, Democrats had a dismal record in state politics, winning the governorship only three times in 24 elections; the party’s stock had languished for fifteen years since the damaging administration of George Earle in the late 1930s.