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    William Frederick Lemke (August 13, 1878 – May 30, 1950) was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States House of Representatives...
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  • The party nominated a ticket consisting of Republican Congressman William Lemke and labor attorney Thomas C. O'Brien in the 1936 presidential election...
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    Democratic candidate, Charles Joseph Vogel, and Republican/NPL Congressman William Lemke, who declined to run for reelection to Congress in order to run for...
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    presidential nomination. The populist Union Party nominated Congressman William Lemke for president. The election took place as the Great Depression entered...
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  • Polling aggregates Candidates   Franklin Roosevelt   Alf Landon   William Lemke   Norman Thomas...
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  • Eugene V. Debs 1912 Socialist 901,551 5.99% Third-party candidate. William Lemke 1936 Union 892,378 1.95% Third-party candidate. Norman Thomas 1932 Socialist...
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    newspaper publisher Frank Knox of Illinois. Also running that year was William Lemke of the short-lived Union Party, and his running mate Thomas C. O'Brien...
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    Redistricted from the 3rd district and re-elected in 1932. Lost renomination. William Lemke (Fargo) Republican-NPL Elected in 1932. Re-elected in 1934. Re-elected...
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  • Lemke is a German surname. As of 2014, 59.6% of all known bearers of the surname Lemke were residents of Germany (frequency 1:2,598), 27.7% of the United...
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  • "big-bellied, red-necked plutocrats" for the war. He and fellow party leader William Lemke received support for the League from isolationist German-Americans....
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    priest” Father Charles Coughlin, who nominated local Representative William Lemke as the presidential candidate of the new “Union Party” on June 9, whose...
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    support of the short-lived Union Party, a third party effort which ran William Lemke of North Dakota for President in 1936, but under his leadership, the...
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    Congressman Robert "Fats" Everett, who had died in office. Their candidate, William J. Davis, out-polled Republican Leonard Dunavant, with 16,375 votes to...
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    margin, it was the second most Republican state after Maine, as populist William Lemke cut into the two-party vote in Maine but was not on the ballot in Vermont...
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  • Democratic Party John M. Palmer/Simon Bolivar Buckner (1896) Union William Lemke/Thomas C. O'Brien (1936) States' Rights Democratic Party Strom Thurmond/Fielding...
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    Party William Lemke W. O. Broyles 551 Union Party William Lemke R. E. Hill 550 Union Party William Lemke W. O. Bonham 549 Union Party William Lemke L. D...
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  • Hanly of Indiana Minister Norman Thomas of New York Representative William Lemke of North Dakota Fmr. VP Henry A. Wallace of Iowa Representative John...
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    candidate to finish even second in any non-Southern county since 1936 when William Lemke finished ahead of Alf Landon in the North Dakota counties of Bottineau...
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    presidential candidate in any non-Southern county since 1936, when William Lemke surpassed 28 percent of the vote in the North Dakota counties of Burke...
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    run for president was U.S. Representative William Lemke who ran as the Union Party's nominee in 1936, but Lemke was not born in the state. The first person...
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  • at-large seat 2nd at-large seat 73rd (1933–1935) James H. Sinclair (R) William Lemke (R-NPL) 74th (1935–1937) Usher L. Burdick (R-NPL) 75th (1937–1939) 76th...
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    Democratic Party John M. Palmer/Simon Bolivar Buckner (1896) Union William Lemke/Thomas C. O'Brien (1936) States' Rights Democratic Party Strom Thurmond/Fielding...
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    unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate, losing 58%-42% to incumbent William Langer in the Republican Primary. Aandahl then ran in the general election...
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    Governor William Langer. In the general election, Langer faced Democratic nominee Charles J. Vogel, an attorney, and Congressman William Lemke, who was...
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  • broke and was setting up a presidential campaign on the left in 1936 William Lemke, North Dakota, Picked up Huey Long support in 1936 Norman Thomas, frequent...
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    Presidential candidate in any free or postbellum state county since 1936 when William Lemke reached over twenty-eight percent of the vote in the North Dakota counties...
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    Incumbent Republican Ragnvald Nestos defeated Nonpartisan League nominee William Lemke with 57.65% of the vote. Primary elections were held on June 28, 1922...
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    The Frazier–Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act was an Act of Congress passed in the United States in 1934 that restricted the ability of banks to repossess farms...
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    best performance being 30.44 percent in Maine. The other four were William Lemke in the North Dakota counties of Burke, Divide, Williams, Mountrail and...
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    initiative system. La Follette, despite his respect for Union Party nominee William Lemke, strongly endorsed Roosevelt, whilst Landon based his hopes on traditional...
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