Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year Earl-who had been patiently raising cattle in Winn Parish and mending political fences-set boldly out to get the governorship again. He talked an oil millionaire named William C. Feazel into backing him. (After election he sent Feazel to the Senate to fill the late Senator John Overton's unexpired term, made Feazel's attorney, Seaborn L. Digby, chairman of the Conservation Commission, which decides how much oil may be pumped from wells...
Career. A lawyer by profession, he has been appointed to one public office (special rackets prosecutor for Manhattan in 1935), elected to two (district attorney of Manhattan in 1937; governor of New York in 1942, reelected in 1946). Defeated twice (for the governorship in 1938, for the presidency in 1944). In 1941 he chairmanned the U.S.O.'s $10 million fund-raising drive...
...last week's run-off election, Louisiana gave him the greatest vote ever polled by one candidate-with 44 of 1,878 precincts still to be counted, his total was 422,766. Sam Houston ("Sad Sam") Jones, the "good government" candidate who had beaten Earl for the governorship in 1940 and broken the back of the old Huey Long machine, got only...
...when he was given his first important party job: running Ed Martin's 1942 campaign for the governorship. When Martin won, Duff was rewarded with the post of state attorney general. When Martin decided to run for the U.S. Senate, party bigwigs considered four other men for the governorship before they finally settled...
Shrewd Boss Jake Arvey had wanted to line up a more seasoned vote-getting combination. But Senator Scott Lucas had refused to run for the governorship; as the Senate's only Midwestern Democrat, he thought he could do his party more good in Washington. Chicago's able Businessman-Mayor Martin Kennelly had also turned down the governorship post...