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The 1948 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1948. Incumbent Democratic Governor Benjamin Travis Laney did not seek a third term. [1] Democratic nominee Sid McMath defeated Republican nominee Charles R. Black with 89.37% of the vote.
The 1948 Republican National Convention was held at the Municipal Auditorium, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from June 21 to 25, 1948.. New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey had paved the way to win the Republican presidential nomination in the primary elections, where he had beaten former Minnesota Governor Harold E. Stassen and World War II General Douglas MacArthur.
The current governor of Arkansas is Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was sworn in on January 10, 2023. List of governors ... (1894–1948) [215] [216] [217]
In 1948, the Republican and Democratic parties did something unthinkable in today's climate of ferocious political animosity: They not only held their national conventions in the same city but ...
The "surprise" candidate of 1948 was Stassen, the former "boy wonder" of Minnesota politics. Stassen had been elected governor of Minnesota at the age of 31; he resigned as governor in 1943 and served in the United States Navy in World War II. In 1945 he had served on the committee which created the United Nations. Stassen was widely regarded ...
Republican hold Republican gain No election United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1948, in 33 states, concurrent with the House , Senate elections and presidential election , on November 2, 1948.
At the time when it became clear that a Southern fracture from the national Democratic Party was on the agenda, Arkansas was deeply divided between a Dixiecrat faction headed by outgoing Governor Ben T. Laney and a loyalist faction led by Sidney S. McMath, [7] who went on to win the 1948 Arkansas gubernatorial election.
Homer Martin Adkins (October 15, 1890 – February 26, 1964) was an American businessman and Democratic politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Arkansas.Adkins is remembered as a skilled retail politician and a strong states' rights proponent and social conservative who served as governor during a period when Arkansas departed from several national economic and societal trends.