The Election of 1926, an off year, was held. The GOP emerged retraining a narrow majority in the Senate, and a decreased majority in the House.
It was a Republican sweep in Wyoming.
Locally, Republican Frank C. Emerson narrowly defeated incumbent Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, ending her political career. He had been State Engineer.
Alonzo M. Clark was elected Secretary of State. Vincent Cartier was reelected State Auditor. William H. Edleman was elected Treasurer. Katherine A. Morton was reelected Superintendent of Public Instruction in a race that featured two female contestants.
Charles Winter took the House.
Winter was the author of the lyrics to the song Wyoming, the first official state song, which is now one of the two official state songs. He later ran for Senate but failed to secure election, but went on to be Attorney General and then Governor of Puerto Rico, after which he returned to Wyoming in 1948. I knew his son, who was a lawyer such as he was, and who lived to be nearly 100 years old.
French pediatrician Gaston Variot warned women not to dance the Charleston, because its "sudden wrenching movements" were "likely to produce internal conditions inimical to the proper conditions of childbirth.
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