1946_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election

1946 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

1946 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

Election

The 1946 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1946. Republican Robert F. Bradford defeated Democratic incumbent Maurice J. Tobin, Socialist Labor candidate Horace Hillis, and Prohibition candidate Guy S. Williams.

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Democratic primary

Governor Tobin defeated Francis D. Harrigan, a senior partner with the law firm of Caulfield, Harrigan and Murray, associate editor of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's Law Journal, and a World War I veteran, for the Democratic nomination.[1][2]

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Republican primary

Lieutenant Governor Robert F. Bradford won the Republican gubernatorial nomination unopposed.[3]

General election

Results

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Election Statistics; The Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1946.
  2. [2]
    "Francis D. Harrigan, once ran for governor". The Boston Daily Globe. November 17, 1969.
  3. [3]
    Election Statistics; The Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1946.
  4. [4]
    Election Statistics; The Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1946.
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