Word: alesandro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baltimore: Double Exposure Baltimore's mayoral race ended not in a photo finish but a double exposure. Democrat Thomas D'Alesandro III, 38, a five-year president of the city council, succeeded to the mayor's office that his father, Tommy D'Alesandro Jr., had occupied from 1947 to 1959. In a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 5 to 1, young D'Alesandro defeated G.O.P. Moderate Arthur W. Sherwood...
...Maryland Governor and another moderate Republican, made a last-minute decision last spring not to seek re-election-likely because he saw he would lose. Lawyer Sherwood stepped into the breach, then quarreled with McKeldin during the campaign. Backed by the Baltimore Council of A.F.L.-C.l.O. Unions, D'Alesandro rolled easily into his father's office and, behind him, the Democrats won every elective municipal post...