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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Illinois did not lose any congressional seats during reapportionment. As of 2020, this is the last time that Illinois has not lost any congressional districts during a post-census reapportionment. Before the election, both the Democratic and Republican parties held 12 seats from Illinois.
The Senate votes 55 to 45 in a rejection of Haynsworth for the Supreme Court. [169] November 22 – President Nixon pledges to assist Illinois Republicans in the 1970 midterm elections as a payback for assistance with his presidential campaign the previous year. [170]
This was the first time that Republicans gained Senate seats while losing House seats in a midterm, which also later occurred in 2018. [5] Democrats did this in 1914 and 1962 as well. This election saw future president Jimmy Carter win the election to the governorship in Georgia.
[9] [10] This was the first such vote held in the State of Illinois since 1934. [10] That call failed. The chief sponsor of the legislation that created this ballot measure was Senate Republican leader W. Russell Arrington. [11] Democratic Governor Otto Kerner Jr. was supportive of holding a constitutional convention. [11]
Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon entered the Oval Office, stared into a television camera and performed an act that still echoes in today's very different political ...
Moreover, Nixon never led in Illinois, and Kennedy's lead merely shrank as election night went on. [15] Earl Mazo, a reporter for the pro-Nixon New York Herald Tribune and his biographer, investigated the voting in Chicago and "claimed to have discovered sufficient evidence of vote fraud to prove that the state was stolen for Kennedy." [12]
Republican candidate Richard Nixon won the state of Illinois by a narrow margin of 2.93%. [14] The winning of Illinois was the moment that sealed a close and turbulent election for Nixon, [15] [16] who in the last counting did much better in massively populated Cook County than Goldwater or Nixon himself in 1960. [15]