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...states (Alabama, California, Idaho, Massachusetts, Mississippi and Oregon) have laws instructing electors to vote for the candidate of their party; in the other 42 states, the law is less specific and electors are bound mainly by tradition. As recently as 1948, the tradition was flouted in one instance. Tennessee Elector Preston Parks, though chosen as a Democrat, claimed his constitutional privilege to vote as he pleased. He cast his ballot for States Righter J. Strom Thurmond, and it was so counted...
...which the majority held (5-2) that the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee has a right to bar from the ballot any candidate for presidential elector who refuses to swear an oath to support the nominees of the Democratic National Convention...
...unable to square his own dentist for a federal job. The gentleman, Dr. Charles L. Singer, had been nominated to run the U.S. Assay Office in New York City, a $7,432.20-a year job traditionally earmarked for Tammany. Dr. Singer was deserving: he had twice been an elector for Franklin Roosevelt. He also knew what gold was; he had filled teeth with it. He was elated: "Imagine! A presidential appointment announced at the White House. It is quite an honor...
...Elector Parks's action changed the expected results by one vote-303 for Truman, 189 for Dewey, 39 for Thurmond. In each state the votes were bundled up and mailed off to Congress. There, on Jan. 6, they would be opened and counted. After that-and not before-Harry Truman would have been legally elected President...
...Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that on the way back from Albany, Elector Samuel Lepler said to Elector David Rockefeller (grandson of John D.): "Now I can say that you and I went to the same college together." Replied Rockefeller: "Oh, did you go to Harvard...