A correction made today: In the 1954 General Election, Louis G. Sutton received 100% of the votes (all 9,181 of them). He won, not lost, that race (as had been incorrectly reported).
Speaker Charles Lyon
Added the following note to Speaker Charles W. Lyon‘s biography: “In 1938, Lyon (as a cross-filing candidate) defeated Robert A. Heinlein for the Democratic nomination for AD-59. As the only winning candidate in Primary, Lyon was unopposed in the General Election. Heinlein went on to become a prolific science fiction author, writing 32 novels, 59 […]
Election Night Parties (A Lesson from Charles F. Van de Water)
Friday marks the 140th birthday of Congressman-elect Charles F. Van de Water. Van de Water was one of those few elected officials in state history who was elected to an office but never took that seat. Van de Water was killed in a late night car crash while returning home from a party to celebrate […]
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