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| Date: | 04 29 1952 |
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| Description: | Election committee chairman of the Central High School Student Council election, Dave Thurman is shown at the left explaining the rules of the election to ... |
| Date: | 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, signing autographs during his 1952 re-election campaign |
| Date: | 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Elected to the Senate in a special election in September 1957, to fill the unexpired term of Senator Joe McCarthy, William Proxmire was forced to begin a c... |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Organizers for the United Packinghouse Workers of America hand out leaflets concerning an upcoming National Labor Relations Board election to be held at th... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of a women's hand touching a ballot machine with names of candidates from the 1956 Wisconsin election. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | After the death of Joseph R. McCarthy in May, 1957, seven Republicans ran in the special primary election. The most serious candidates were Congressman Gle... |
| Date: | 11 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Thomas Fairchild casts his vote in the 1952 general election. Fairchild lost his bid for the U.S. Senate seat held by Joseph R. McCarthy. With him are hi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | For a 1950 election, the United Packinghouse Workers Union sponsored a free bus to transport people to the voter registration site. |
| Date: | 08 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Jubilant Proxmire supporters dance in the streets in Milwaukee after Democrat William Proxmire won the special election to fill the seat left vacant by the... |
| Date: | 09 19 1952 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Dwight D. Eisenhower addressing a huge crowd from a train platform during his "Whistle-stop" election drive. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman Melvin R. Laird with four supporters of the re-election campaign of President Dwight Eisenhower and Dick Nixon, dressed in special ca... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Governor Vernon Wallace Thompson, seated in a chair, is reading the newspaper and taking notes in the Republican Headquarters during his re-election campai... |
| Date: | 08 27 1957 |
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| Description: | William Proxmire, his wife, Ellen (to Proxmire's right), and his supporters celebrate his victory in the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated u... |
| Date: | 08 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy being interviewed by a newsreel crew after his victory in the 1952 Republican primary election. McCarthy was celebrating at the ... |
| Date: | 04 01 1958 |
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| Description: | East Side Youth Mayor's Council members arrange for an election of a youth mayor and alderman. Publicity committee workers shown left to right: Delores Klu... |
| Date: | 11 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. and Charlotte Kohler, listening to the radio, kept a close tabulation of state and national election returns Tuesday night a... |
| Date: | 10 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Phileo Nash (facing camera with a name button on his lapel) seeks re-election as State Democratic Party Chairman at the State Democratic Convention held at... |
| Date: | 10 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Telawomen Committee members of the Dane Conty Women's Republican club met in Madison to open their campaign efforts for the November 7th election. Standin... |
| Date: | 11 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Charles Carthright of Oregon was named the winner of "Parade Magazine's" election year contest to name the Republican elephant. Her winning entry was ... |
| Date: | 04 13 1959 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Robert Mixson, a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin student, at his swearing-in ceremony as a Justice of the Peace. A fraternity prank resulte... |
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