Michigan: State Attorneys General, 1940s
Michigan State Attorneys General, 1940-49 (may be
incomplete!)
Thomas
Read 1939-40
Herbert
J. Rushton 1941-44
John
R. Dethmers 1945-46
Foss
O. Eldred 1946
Eugene
F. Black 1947-48
Stephen
J. Roth 1949-50
Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)
Michigan State Attorneys General: Events and
Candidates of the 1940's (may be incomplete!)
- 1940 Nov 5:
Herbert
J. Rushton (Rep), elected;
Raymond
W. Starr (Dem), defeated;
James
H. Stites (Socialist), defeated;
Merrill
C. Work (Communist), defeated;
Frederick
Piatt (Prohibition), defeated;
Charles
Schwartz (Socialist Labor), defeated.
- 1942:
John
W. Babcock (Dem), defeated.
- 1944 Nov 7:
John
R. Dethmers (Rep), elected;
Thurman
B. Doyle (Dem), defeated;
G.
Albert Emerich (Prohibition), defeated;
James
H. Stites (Socialist), defeated;
Kenneth
C. Weber (America First), defeated;
Charles
Schwartz (Socialist Labor), defeated.
- 1946 Aug 15:
John
R. Dethmers, resigned.
- 1946 Sep 9:
Foss
O. Eldred, appointed.
- 1946 Nov 5:
Eugene
F. Black (Rep), elected;
Thurman
B. Doyle (Dem), defeated;
LeRoy
B. McInally (Prohibition), defeated;
Grace
M. Hamilton (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Philip
Raymond (Communist), defeated.
- 1948 Nov 2:
Stephen
J. Roth (Dem), elected;
Stuart
B. White (Rep), defeated;
Ernest
Goodman (Progressive), defeated;
LeRoy
B. McInally (Prohibition), defeated;
Samuel
Silverstein (Socialist), defeated;
Marion
L. Walbridge (Socialist Labor), defeated.
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