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Jan 23, 2024 · In the 1952 primary, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower began his climb to the presidency by topping “Mr. Republican,” Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, a son of President William Howard Taft. Eisenhower ...
- Ronald G. Shafer
Jan 22, 2024 · Being first means a lot to the Granite State. New Hampshire held its first presidential primary in May 1916 − a week after the Indiana primary − but legislators soon amended state law to hold ...
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Feb 8, 2016 · New Hampshire has cemented its first-in-the-nation status by passing a law that requires its lawmakers to move the state’s primary to pre-empt any other state’s, no matter how early. That ...
- Gillian Peele
May 19, 2007 · Philip (Jr.) was born in Concord New Hampshire on 20 February 1772. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1794 and studied law with Arthur Livermore, Esq. and settled in practice in his native town. He was chosen Secretary of State by the New Hampshire Legislature in June 1805, and sustained that office four years.
election after he lost the New Hampshire primary. President Lyndon B. Johnson came to the same conclusion in 1968; he won the New Hampshire primary but by such a narrow margin that he decided he lacked the support to win the general election. At other times, the New Hampshire primary has helped put underdogs on the political map, such as when Bill
Jan 21, 2016 · It was autumn 1880, and a farmer from Richmond, New Hampshire, named Stephen Bullock — 23, mustachioed, newly married — was hauling cider through the hill country in the southwest corner of ...
Jan 23, 2024 · CONCORD, N.H. —. Voters in the Granite State are headed to the polls Tuesday to vote in the first-in-the-nation primary. The New Hampshire primary as we know it today began in 1952 when ...
