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Helen Gahagan Douglas, the Glossary

Helen Gahagan Douglas (born Helen Mary Gahagan; November 25, 1900 – June 28, 1980) was an American actress and politician.^[1]

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Alan Cranston

Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States Senator from California from 1969 to 1993, and as President of the World Federalist Association from 1949 to 1952.

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American Labor Party

The American Labor Party (ALP) was a political party in the United States established in 1936 that was active almost exclusively in the state of New York.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Arverne, Queens

Arverne is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, on the Rockaway Peninsula.

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Barnard College

Barnard College, officially titled as Barnard College, Columbia University, is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Berkeley Carroll School

The Berkeley Carroll School is a coed independent college prep school in New York City.

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Boonton, New Jersey

Boonton is a town in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Breast cancer

Breast cancer is a cancer that develops from breast tissue.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California's 14th congressional district

California's 14th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California.

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Carl Albert Center

The Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center is a nonpartisan institution devoted to teaching and research related to the United States Congress and, more broadly, to strengthening representative democracy through engaged and informed citizens.

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Character assassination

Character assassination (CA) is a deliberate and sustained effort to damage the reputation or credibility of an individual.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.

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Classes of United States senators

The 100 seats in the United States Senate are divided into 3 classes to determine which seats will be up for election in any 2-year cycle, with only 1 class being up for election at a time.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Democratic National Committee

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the principal committee of the United States Democratic Party.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Eleanor Roosevelt are Liberalism in the United States.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church, officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.

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Evil Queen (Disney)

The Evil Queen, also known as the Wicked Queen, Queen Grimhilde, or just the Queen, is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Productions' first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and remains a villain character in their extended ''Snow White'' franchise.

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Farmer

A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.

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Fellow traveller

A fellow traveller (also fellow traveler) is a person who is intellectually sympathetic to the ideology of a political organization, and who co-operates in the organization's politics, without being a formal member.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Franklin D. Roosevelt are Liberalism in the United States.

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Frederick Madison Roberts

Frederick Madison Roberts (September 14, 1879 – July 19, 1952) was an American newspaper owner and editor, educator and business owner; he became a politician, the first known man of African American descent elected to the California State Assembly.

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George McGovern

George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American politician and historian who was a U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator from South Dakota, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election. Helen Gahagan Douglas and George McGovern are Liberalism in the United States.

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George Murphy

George Lloyd Murphy (July 4, 1902 – May 3, 1992) was an American actor and politician. Helen Gahagan Douglas and George Murphy are American actor-politicians.

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H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Harry S. Truman are Liberalism in the United States.

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Hollywood Anti-Nazi League

The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (later known as the American Peace Mobilization) was founded in Los Angeles in 1936 by Soviet agent Otto Katz and others with the stated purpose of organizing members of the American film industry to oppose fascism and Nazism.

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Illustrated Daily News

The Daily News (originally the Illustrated Daily News) was a newspaper published in Los Angeles from 1923 to 1954.

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India Edwards

India Edwards (June 16, 1895 – January 14, 1990) was an American journalist and political advisor who served as the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Helen Gahagan Douglas and John F. Kennedy are Liberalism in the United States.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer.

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List of United States representatives from California

This is a list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of California.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lung cancer

Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Lyndon B. Johnson are Liberalism in the United States.

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Manchester Boddy

Elias Manchester Boddy (November 1, 1891– May 12, 1967) was an American newspaper publisher.

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Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist.

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Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor.

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Migrant worker

A migrant worker is a person who migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work.

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Ms. (magazine)

Ms. is an American feminist magazine co-founded in 1971 by journalist and social/political activist Gloria Steinem.

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Murray Chotiner

Murray M Chotiner (October 4, 1909 – January 30, 1974) was an American political strategist, attorney, government official, and close associate and friend of President Richard Nixon during much of the 37th President's political career. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Murray Chotiner are Richard Nixon.

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National Association of Colored Women's Clubs

The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) is an American organization that was formed in July 1896 at the First Annual Convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Women in Washington, D.C., United States, by a merger of the National Federation of Afro-American Women, the Woman's Era Club of Boston, and the Colored Women's League of Washington, DC, at the call of Josephine St.

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National Youth Administration

The National Youth Administration (NYA) was a New Deal agency sponsored by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his presidency.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression. Helen Gahagan Douglas and New Deal are Liberalism in the United States.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Office of Civilian Defense

Office of Civilian Defense was a United States federal emergency war agency set up May 20, 1941, by to co-ordinate state and federal measures for protection of civilians in case of war emergency.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Park Slope

Park Slope is a neighborhood in western Brooklyn, New York City, within the area once known as South Brooklyn.

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Pinko

Pinko is a pejorative term for a person on the left of the political spectrum.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Robert Caro

Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Ronald Reagan are American actor-politicians.

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Sam Yorty

Samuel William Yorty (October 1, 1909 – June 5, 1998) was an American politician, attorney, and radio host from Los Angeles, California. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Sam Yorty are Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California.

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Scotch-Irish Americans

Scotch-Irish Americans (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of primarily Ulster Scots people who emigrated from Ulster (Ireland's northernmost province) to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Scotch-Irish Americans are American people of Scotch-Irish descent.

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Sequoia sempervirens

Sequoia sempervirensSunset Western Garden Book, 1995: 606–607 is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae).

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She (1935 film)

She is a 1935 American adventure film produced by Merian C. Cooper.

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She: A History of Adventure

She, subtitled A History of Adventure, is a novel by the English writer H. Rider Haggard, published in book form in 1887 following serialisation in The Graphic magazine between October 1886 and January 1887.

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Sheridan Downey

Sheridan Downey (March 11, 1884 – October 25, 1961) was an American lawyer and a Democratic U.S. Senator from California from 1939 to 1950. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Sheridan Downey are Richard Nixon.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian, academic, and author, most noted for his biographies of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro.

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Thomas F. Ford

Thomas Francis Ford (February 18, 1873 – December 26, 1958) was an American politician, journalist, and editor who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California from 1933 to 1945. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Thomas F. Ford are Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California.

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Tom Lehrer

Thomas Andrew Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater.

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United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Vito Marcantonio

Vito Anthony Marcantonio (December 10, 1902 – August 9, 1954) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the socialist leader of East Harlem for seven terms in the United States House of Representatives.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.

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Walter H. Gahagan

Walter Hamer Gahagan (February 14, 1864 – December 18, 1930) was an American civil engineer and general contractor who owned a construction business based in Brooklyn, New York, and a shipyard in Arverne, Queens.

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Watergate scandal

The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Watergate scandal are Richard Nixon.

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William M. Malone

William Matthew Malone (July 7, 1900 – December 6, 1981) was an American lawyer and political boss who chaired the California Democratic Party during and after World War II.

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William Tubman

William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman (29 November 1895 – 23 July 1971) was a Liberian politician.

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Williston Northampton School

Williston Northampton School (simply referred to as Williston) is a private, co-educational, day and boarding college-preparatory school in Easthampton, Massachusetts, United States.

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Women in the United States House of Representatives

Women have served in the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress, since 1917 following the election of Republican Jeannette Rankin from Montana, the first woman in Congress. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Women in the United States House of Representatives are Female members of the United States House of Representatives.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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Young Woodley (play)

Young Woodley is a 1925 play by the British writer John Van Druten.

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1944 Democratic National Convention

The 1944 Democratic National Convention was held at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago, Illinois from July 19 to July 21, 1944.

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1944 United States House of Representatives elections

The 1944 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 79th United States Congress.

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1946 United States House of Representatives elections

The 1946 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 80th United States Congress.

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1948 United States House of Representatives elections

The 1948 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 81st United States Congress.

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1950 United States Senate election in California

The 1950 United States Senate election in California was held on November 7 of that year, following a campaign characterized by accusations and name-calling. Helen Gahagan Douglas and 1950 United States Senate election in California are Richard Nixon.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gahagan_Douglas

Also known as Helen Douglas, Helen G. Douglas, Helen Gagahan Douglas, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mary Gahagan Douglas.

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