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- ↑ "Hugh Alcorn, Famed State's Atty., Dies", United Press, Naugatuck Daily News (Naugatuck, Connecticut), May 27, 1955, p. 1
- ↑ https://electionhistory.ct.gov/eng/candidates/view/23802/ Alcorn's election results on Connecticut Secretary of State website. Note that as of 3/2024 the site conflates his results and those of his son.
- ↑ https://www.suffield-library.org/localhistory/alcorn.htm Bio of Alcorn on Suffield Library website
- ↑ "Information", Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), November 3, 1957, p. A15