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Feb 8, 2015 · The media initially loved him, though it didn’t long go unobserved that he was something of an Etch-a-Sketch candidate. “Everyone who heard [him] agreed with all that he said,” observed the New...
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Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was an American Republican Party politician, military officer, and attorney who was the 25th governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943. He was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 1948.
Mar 5, 2001 · His most successful campaign was in 1948, when he was a major candidate, along with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Mr. Stassen won four presidential...
In doing so, he was essentially rewriting conventional rules regarding presidential campaigns. Stassen announced his candidacy in December of 1946 and wasted no time courting voters and...
- Steve Werle
Mar 13, 2015 · A new book tells the story of Minnesota's "boy governor," Harold Stassen. Stassen was one of the youngest people in the nation ever elected governor. Minnesota voters put the moderate...
When Stassen left the Eisenhower administration in 1958, he became a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania. His defeat by large margin signaled the end of his importance as a political figure, despite his candidacy for a number of positions in the following years.
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Harold Stassen (1907 – 2001) sought the Republican nomination for president 13 times between 1940 and 2000. Surely an entry there for the Guinness Book of World Records. By the 1960s his perennial candidacy had become a national joke, but there he was all the same, joke or not, shaking hands, smiling, talking to whoever would listen.
