Landon 36-Stevenson 56 voters?

[MATTROSE94]

Probably a pro-civil rights Republican from East Tennessee who felt that Estes Kefauver was an excellent Senator (due to his pro-civil rights stance and opposition to the Southern Manifesto) and would have made a good Vice President under Adlai Stevenson.

[MATTROSE94]

Probably a pro-civil rights Republican from East Tennessee who felt that Estes Kefauver was an excellent Senator (due to his pro-civil rights stance and opposition to the Southern Manifesto) and would have made a good Vice President under Adlai Stevenson.

Considering that Alf Landon had his arse beaten even in Eastern Tennessee in 1936 (while in 1956 Eisenhower triumphed there) and that Republicans in Eastern Tennessee were not exactly bleeding for civil rights (although they were certainly more supportive than most Tennessee Democrats), I am skeptical.

Even though Dwight Eisenhower did a lot better than Alf Landon in East Tennessee in 1952 and 1956, I am sure that there were at least a few voters in that area that matched my description. As for the civil rights stuff, I meant relative to Tennessee Democrats. I know that the two Republican members of Congress during the 1950s (B. Carroll Reece and Howard Baker Sr.) from East Tennessee refused to sign the Southern Manifesto, supported the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts, and the 24th Amendment, which abolished the poll tax in federal elections. Also, iirc, East Tennessee was once the first areas of the state to begin desegregation, with some areas of the region such as Knoxville having commenced integration in 1960.

[MATTROSE94]

Probably a pro-civil rights Republican from East Tennessee who felt that Estes Kefauver was an excellent Senator (due to his pro-civil rights stance and opposition to the Southern Manifesto) and would have made a good Vice President under Adlai Stevenson.

Considering that Alf Landon had his arse beaten even in Eastern Tennessee in 1936 (while in 1956 Eisenhower triumphed there) and that Republicans in Eastern Tennessee were not exactly bleeding for civil rights (although they were certainly more supportive than most Tennessee Democrats), I am skeptical.

Even though Dwight Eisenhower did a lot better than Alf Landon in East Tennessee in 1952 and 1956, I am sure that there were at least a few voters in that area that matched my description. As for the civil rights stuff, I meant relative to Tennessee Democrats. I know that the two Republican members of Congress during the 1950s (B. Carroll Reece and Howard Baker Jr.) from East Tennessee refused to sign the Southern Manifesto, supported the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts, and the 24th Amendment, which abolished the poll tax in federal elections. Also, iirc, East Tennessee was once the first areas of the state to begin desegregation, with some areas of the region such as Knoxville having commenced integration in 1960.

It was Howard Baker Sr., but otherwise your post stands.

However, notice that the three Republicans from East Tennessee (Jimmy Quillen, Irene Baker and Bill Brock) voted against the Civil Rights Act 1964, and again the next year Jimmy Quillen, John Duncan Sr. and Bill Brock voted against the original House version of the Voting Rights Act 1965.
(Yes, Irene Baker was the widow of Howard Baker Sr.)

I mistakenly put Howard Baker Jr. instead of Sr. in my post. At least in the 1950s, East Tennessee was moderately pro-civil rights, but moved towards a more anti-civil rights position in the 1960s as integration increased.