States' Men

Pregnant result of last week's elections is that two years hence, when another President is created, the Republican Party will be back in the running with 15 new gubernatorial machines. Losing only three Governorships, and retaining three, the G.O.P. had a net gain of eleven over last year. Five of them are in key States of the Industrial East and Midwest, three in important farm States, three in the Mountain States, one on the Pacific Coast. In 1940 these new Governors may be of prime political importance. Some of them are (see cuts):

John William Bricker, 45, oldtime University of Ohio debater and baseball catcher, expert angler, twice Ohio's Attorney General.

William Henry ("Billy") Vanderbilt, 37, grandson of the railroading commodore, in Rhode Island politics for ten years.

Payne H. Ratner, 42, of Kansas, a one-quarter Jewish lawyer with an "underdog complex" for labor and child welfare. He is an Alf Landon protege.

Julius Peter Hell, 60, of Wisconsin, born on the Rhine, self-made millionaire (furnaces, tanks, snowplows),paternal employer.

Charles Arthur Sprague, 51, of Oregon, a long-nosed small-town publisher (Salem Oregon Statesman).

Ralph Carr, 50, of Colorado, round-faced, popular lawyer, U.S. District Attorney under Herbert Hoover. He had to be drafted.

Arthur H. James, 55, of Pennsylvania, sawed-off, sorrel-topped corporation lawyer and Superior Court judge, up from a coal mine boss's son.

Frank Dwight Fitzgerald, 53, of Michigan, a diligent, bespectacled wheelhorse in the State government for 28 years.

Other New Republicans: South Dakota's Harland J. Bushfield, Wyoming's Nels H. Smith, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall. Iowa's George A. Wilson, Idaho's C. A. Bottolfsen. New Democrats: Maryland's Herbert R. O'Conor, California's Culbert Olson, North Dakota's John Moses.

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