Lex Anteinternet: November 5, 1968. Election returns.

Monday, November 5, 2018

November 5, 1968. Election returns.

1. From our companion blog, Today In Wyoming's History for November 5:

November 5

1968 Richard M. Nixon elected President of the United States.

Wyoming voted for Nixon, as it has for every Republican Presidential candidate after Lyndon Johnson.

1968 Republican John Wold elected as Congressman from Wyoming. The Casper based oilman served one term as he gave up this seat to run unsuccessfully against incumbent Senator Gale McGee.

2. Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn became the first African American woman elected to Congress, running on a Democratic ticket and defeating the heavily favored Liberal Party (but backed by the Republicans) candidate James L. Farmer, Jr. In 1972 she ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination.

3. Luis A. Ferre was elected Governor of Puerto Rico on a plat from seeking statehood.

No comments:

Lex Anteinternet?

This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

We hope you'll feel moved to comment as well. While we moderate every comment, so as to weed out Spam, we greatly appreciate the comments where they are offered, and hope to see more.

Thank you for stopping in!