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The party was weakest in New England, but strong everywhere else and won most national elections thanks to strength in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia (by far the most populous states at the time) and the American frontier. Democrats opposed elites and aristocrats, the Bank of the United States and the whiggish modernizing programs that would ...
Resigned August 8, 1960, after becoming U.S. Senator: Vacant Not filled this term Massachusetts 5th: Edith Nourse Rogers (R) Died September 10, 1960 Wyoming at-large: Edwin Keith Thomson (R) Died December 9, 1960 New York 5th: Albert H. Bosch (R) Resigned December 31, 1960, after being elected judge of Court of Queens County
[204] [205] During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Republicans generally favored legalized abortion more than Democrats, [206] although significant heterogeneity could be found within both parties. [207] During this time, opposition to abortion tended to be concentrated within the political left in the United States.
The Democratic platform in 1960 was the longest yet. [8] They called for a loosening of tight economic policy: "We Democrats believe that the economy can and must grow at an average rate of 5 percent annually, almost twice as fast as our annual rate since 1953...As the first step in speeding economic growth, a Democratic president will put an end to the present high-interest-rate, tight-money ...
From March 8 to June 7, 1960, voters and members of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1960 Democratic National Convention through a series of caucuses, conventions, and primaries, partly for the purpose of nominating a candidate for President of the United States in the 1960 election.
The transition into today's Democratic Party was cemented in 1948, when Harry Truman introduced a pro-civil rights platform and, in response, many Democrats walked out and formed the Dixiecrats. Most rejoined the Democrats over the next decade, but in the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
However, a significant shift of Black voters leaving the Republican Party occurred in the 1960s when key Democrats like John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, played a role in supporting civil ...
The 1960 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives on November 8, 1960, to elect members to serve in the 87th United States Congress. They coincided with the election of President John F. Kennedy and was the first house election to feature all 50 current U.S. states.