Lex Anteinternet: 1946 Election

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Thursday, November 5, 2026

Tuesday, November 5, 1946. 1946 Midterm Election.

The GOP took control of both houses in Congress in the 1946 Midterm Election.

Democrat Lester Hunt secured reelection as Governor in Wyoming as did Democratic U.S. Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney.

O'Mahoney

O'Mahoney would ultimately serve four terms, which were split, serving from 1933 to 1953 and then again from 1954 to 1961. The Massachusetts born journalist and lawyer passed away in 1962 at age 78.

Incumbent Republican Congressman Frank A. Barrett beat Democratic nominee, John J. McIntyre, the State Auditor and Barrett's predecessor in Congress. Barrett was a long serving Wyoming politician who oddly enough also died in 1962.

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Friday, November 1, 1946. The ordination of Fr. Karol Wojtyla.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, basketball, Catholic, Christianity, Education, Japan, Pope St. John Paul II, religion

Monday, June 22, 2026

Saturday, June 22, 1946. History rhyming

U.S. Senator Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi, a former Governor of that state, running for re-election in the Democratic primary, said in a radio broadcast that he was calling on every "red-blooded Anglo-Saxon man in Mississippi to resort to any means to keep hundreds of Negroes from the polls in the July 2 primary.And if you don't know what the means, you are just not up on your persuasive measures.

He won the primary and the generals, but the Senate would refuse to swear him in due to his racist comments.

Today he'd be a Republican, they'd excuse his comments, and he'd be sworn in.

Bilbo retired and wrote a book entitled; Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization. He died in 1947.

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Thursday, June 20, 1946. Allied withdrawal.

Labels: 1940, 1946, 1950s, 1955, 1957, 1960s, 1962, Allied Powers, Allies, Bulgaria, China, Italy, Manchukuo, Monarchy

Thomas More, counsellor of law and statesman of integrity, merry martyr and most human of saints: Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be trustworthy with confidences, keen in study, accurate in analysis, correct in conclusion, able in argument, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, ever attentive to conscience. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients’ tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul. Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain—their good servant, and God’s first. Amen

"Be at peace. Do not look forward in fear to the changes of life; rather look to them with full hope as they arise. God, whose very own you are, will deliver you from out of them. He has kept you hitherto, and He will lead you safely through all things; and when you cannot stand it, God will bury you in his arms. Do not fear what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you then and every day. He will either shield you from suffering, or give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imagination." St. Francis de Sales

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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?"

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