Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, where Republicans needed five to claim control, they lost two seats. That left the Democrats ahead 57 to 43 in the Senate and 243 to 192 in the House, where three seats will be declared vacant. The Democrats also made a net gain of one governorship...
...example, the G.O.P. fell far short of its goal of gaining control of Congress. In the House, the Republicans picked up only 12 seats. In the Senate, where they needed five to claim a majority, the G.O.P. lost two seats. The Democrats made a net gain of one governorship...
...Hampshire's reigning superconservative, William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader. Loeb backed them both in their respective primaries, but threw his newspaper's support to Thomson in the main event. Possibly he simply soured on Crowley, who had lost a bid for the governorship in 1970 despite Loeb's backing, or perhaps he was disturbed that Crowley was seeking moderate support this time around...
...Tribbiff, 49, coasted into office on a kind of reverse landslide: the land simply slid out from under his opponent, Republican Incumbent Russell W. Peterson, 56. A research chemist with a Ph.D. who left a $75,000-a-year job at Du Pont to run successfully for the governorship in 1968, Peterson had won a deserved reputation as a reformer and innovator; among his credits was a widely praised coastal zoning law, enacted in 1971, that barred polluting industries from building plants along Delaware's 381-mile shore line. But Peterson's fortunes suddenly soured last summer when...
...turned around and presented its four electoral votes in Nixon with 54 per cent of its popular vote. Democratic Sen. Claiborne Pell withstood a strong challenge by former Governor John H. Chafee, winning his third term with 54 per cent of the vote. Democrat Phillip Noell won the governorship with 53 per cent of the vote...