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| Date: | 07 1952 |
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| Description: | The Democratic convention, with Harry S. Truman and Adlai Stevenson standing at a podium. |
| 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: | 11 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Women campaign workers call voters to support the Labor Political League and vote for candidates sympathetic to Labor issues. |
| 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: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A campaign picture of Democrat Henry Reuss with his sleeves rolled up in a factory talking to a foreman while an African-American worker looks on. This was... |
| Date: | 08 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Acting Madison City Manager George Forster signs a proclamation designating the week of August 14 as Voters' Registration week. Watching are, left to righ... |
| Date: | 08 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Walter J. Kohler addresses the attendees of a Dane County Republican Party rally at the Eagle's Club in Madison. |
| 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: | 02 22 1956 |
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| Description: | Margaret Johnson and Betty Hancock, members of the League of Women Voters, display a poster announcing a public meeting where candidates for mayor, 20th wa... |
| Date: | 02 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Stan Lesar, laboratory manager at the American Scientific Laboratories and an immigrant from Yugoslavia, looks forward to voting for the first time in the ... |
| Date: | 03 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Papers containing President Eisenhower's consent to be a candidate in the Wisconsin presidential primary and the President's certified list of delegate can... |
| Date: | 10 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Atty. Gen. Vernon W. Thomson, GOP gubernatorial candidate, posing with his long-time friend, movie and television actor Dennis Morgan. Morgan was one of th... |
| Date: | 11 05 1956 |
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| Description: | Telephone callers started a new phase of the "get out the vote" campaign Monday at Proxmire for Governor headquarters, 135 W. Wells Street. More than 40 te... |
| 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: | 12 08 1958 |
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| Description: | New officers of the Madison and suburban Junior Red Cross elementary council include Janet Ficken, president; Gary Herbeck, left, vice-president; Bill Bres... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Mother and small son in voting booth, with the child squatting on the floor and peeking out beneath the curtain. |
| 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 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Dane County Treasurer Walter Smithback (left) talks over strategy with Patrick J. Lucey for Lucey's run for State Democratic Party Chairman at the State De... |
| Date: | 10 12 1957 |
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| Description: | The winner of the race for State Chairman of the party is Patrick J. Lucey (left), shown here with the incumbent chairman, Philleo Nash of Wisconsin Rapids... |
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