Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1944

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Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1944
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  1942 November 7, 1944 1946  

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Nominee Maurice J. Tobin Horace T. Cahill
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote1,048,284 897,708
Percentage53.6% 46.0%

Governor before election

Leverett Saltonstall
Republican

Elected Governor

Maurice J. Tobin
Democratic

The 1944 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1944. Democrat Maurice J. Tobin defeated Republican Horace T. Cahill, Socialist Labor candidate Henning A. Blomen, and Prohibition candidate Guy S. Williams. Incumbent Governor Leverett Saltonstall did not run for reelection. In the race for Lieutenant Governor, Republican Robert F. Bradford defeated Democrat John B. Carr, Socialist Labor candidate George L. McGlynn, and Prohibition candidate Alfred Erickson.

Maurice J. Tobin American politician

Maurice Joseph Tobin was a Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, the Governor of Massachusetts, and United States Secretary of Labor. He was a Democrat and a liberal who supported the New Deal and Fair Deal programs, and was outspoken in his support for labor unions. However, he had little success battling against the conservative majorities in the Massachusetts legislature, and the U.S. Congress.

Horace Tracy Cahill was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and, from 1939 to 1945, as the 54th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. In 1944 Cahill was the unsuccessfully Republican candidate for Governor.

Leverett Saltonstall politician and United States Army officer

Leverett A. Saltonstall was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served three two-year terms as the 55th Governor of Massachusetts, and for more than twenty years as a United States Senator (1945–1967). Saltonstall was internationalist in foreign policy and moderate on domestic policy, serving as a well-liked mediating force in the Republican Party. He was the only member of the Republican Senate leadership to vote for the censure of Joseph McCarthy.

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General election

Governor

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1944 [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Democratic Maurice J. Tobin 1,048,28453.6%
Republican Horace T. Cahill 897,708 46.0%
Socialist Labor Henning A. Blomen 5,176 0.3%
Prohibition Guy S. Williams 2,988 0.2%

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References

  1. Dubin, Michael. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1932-1952. p. 110.