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    Thomas Henry Kuchel (/ˈkiːkəl/ KEE-kəl; August 15, 1910 – November 21, 1994) was an American politician. A moderate Republican, he served as a US Senator...
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    conservative Rafferty had narrowly defeated the liberal Republican incumbent, Thomas Kuchel, in that party's primary. The election was marred by mudslinging. A...
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    election in California was held on November 6, 1956. Incumbent Republican Thomas Kuchel, who had won a 1954 special election to fill the vacant seat left by...
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    Incumbent Republican Thomas Kuchel was re-elected to a second full term in office, defeating Democratic State Senator Richard Richards. Kuchel carried every...
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    Southern senators of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Dirksen, Republican Thomas Kuchel and Democrats Hubert Humphrey and Mike Mansfield introduced a compromise...
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    Through his mother, Nixon was a descendant of the early English settler Thomas Cornell. Nixon's upbringing was influenced by Quaker observances of the...
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    election in California was held on November 5, 1968. Incumbent Republican Thomas Kuchel was narrowly defeated in the June 4 primary by Superintendent of Public...
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    assume the vice presidency, Governor Earl Warren appointed Thomas Kuchel to Nixon's seat; Kuchel assumed the office on January 2, 1953. In Idaho, Republican...
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    Brown. Engle began his term on January 3, 1959. He worked with Senator Thomas Kuchel to pass the San Luis water project, the West Coast electric power intertie...
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    but the nomination and the election went to the moderate Republican Thomas Kuchel. Subsequently, he ran several times for Mayor of Los Angeles on an anti-tax...
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    following the 1952 presidential election. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Thomas Kuchel, who had been appointed by Governor Earl Warren, won election to the...
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    in 1954 to finish Nixon's term. Jan 2, 1953 – Jan 3, 1969 Republican Thomas Kuchel 14 Re-elected in 1952. Retired to run for Governor of California. 19...
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    and My Gal (1942) as Mo K. Metcalf The Navy Comes Through (1942) as Lt. Thomas L. 'Tom' Sands The Powers Girl (1943) as Jerry Hendricks Bataan (1943) as...
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    54 days, Senators Mansfield, Hubert Humphrey, Everett Dirksen, and Thomas Kuchel introduced a substitute bill that they hoped would overcome it by combining...
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    Rapids with his three half-brothers from his mother's second marriage: Thomas Gardner "Tom" Ford (1918–1995), Richard Addison "Dick" Ford (1924–2015)...
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    1960 because he was absent from the chamber while Senate Minority Whip Thomas Kuchel (R–CA) announced that Goldwater would have voted in favor if present...
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    (Republican) 17.0% California Thomas Kuchel Republican 1953 (Appointed) 1954 (special) Incumbent re-elected. ▌Y Thomas Kuchel (Republican) 54.0% ▌Richard...
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    Barry Goldwater, initially supporting the moderate California senator Thomas Kuchel, a candidacy that, Witcover remarks, "died stillborn". After the failure...
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    incumbent U.S. Senator Thomas Kuchel was one of the last Republicans elected from California at the state or U.S. Senate level. Kuchel had been re-elected...
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    affidavit" claiming that U.S. Senator Thomas Kuchel had once been arrested for a homosexual act in retaliation for Kuchel's support of the Civil Rights Act...
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    1960 Presidential election. In 1962, with popular incumbent Senator Thomas Kuchel essentially guaranteed to win re-election, the Republican Party felt...
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    an internationalist and moderate Republican Congressman. After helping Thomas E. Dewey win the 1948 Republican presidential nomination, Scott held the...
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    354 0.01% 1954 (sp) Thomas Kuchel Republican 2,090,836 53.21% Sam Yorty Democratic 1,788,071 45.51% 50,506 1.29% 1956 Thomas Kuchel Republican 2,892,918...
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    the Clean Air Act Amendments. He also appointed David Souter and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. Bush lost the 1992 presidential election to Democrat...
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    Assemblyman, 28th District 1947-1953 Succeeded by Clark L. Bradley Preceded by Thomas Kuchel California State Controller 1953–1959 Succeeded by Alan Cranston...
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    (Republican) 31.3% California Thomas Kuchel Republican 1953 (Appointed) 1954 (special) 1956 Incumbent re-elected. ▌Y Thomas Kuchel (Republican) 56.3% ▌Richard...
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    According to The Assassination of Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy by Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, Tower became the liaison for Robert Maxwell, a British...
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  • 80th (1947–1949) 81st (1949–1951) Richard Nixon (R) 82nd (1951–1953) Thomas Kuchel (R) 83rd (1953–1955) 84th (1955–1957) 85th (1957–1959) Clair Engle (D)...
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    United States Senator (Class 1) from California 1964 Served alongside: Thomas Kuchel Succeeded by George Murphy Party political offices Preceded by Clair...
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    in politics in 1966 as a legislative assistant to Republican senator Thomas Kuchel, the Senate Minority whip from California, whom Panetta has called "a...
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