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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.
1948: 50,959 21.02% ... The state voted Republican for the first time in 100 ... Arkansas governors served two-year terms until a referendum lengthened the term to ...
Governor Dewey, who had been the Republican nominee in 1944, was regarded as the frontrunner when the primaries began. Dewey was the acknowledged leader of the GOP's powerful eastern establishment; in 1946 he had been re-elected Governor of New York by the largest margin in state history.
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1948, in 33 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 2, 1948.Elections took place on September 13 in Maine.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders ' office potentially violated state laws on purchasing, state property and government records when it purchased a $19,000 lectern for the Republican governor ...
Arkansas Governor's Mansion: Seat: State Capitol, Little Rock, Arkansas: Term length: Four years, renewable once: Constituting instrument: Constitution of Arkansas: Precursor: Governor of Arkansas Territory: Inaugural holder: James Sevier Conway: Formation: September 13, 1836 (188 years ago) () Deputy: Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Salary ...
Sidney Sanders McMath (June 14, 1912 – October 4, 2003) was a U.S. marine, attorney and the 34th governor of Arkansas from 1949 to 1953. In defiance of his state's political establishment, he championed rapid rural electrification, massive highway and school construction, the building of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, strict bank and utility regulation, repeal of the poll ...