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    A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Griffith on 20 May 1939. This was triggered by the death of Labor Party MP...
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  • has alternated between the Labor Party and Liberal Party . The 1939 Griffith by-election was nearly the sight of an upset, with the UAP/Country coalition...
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  • presidential election 1939 Southern Rhodesian general election 1939 Southern Rhodesian general election 1939 Iranian legislative election 1939 Griffith by-election...
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  • results for the Division of Griffith in Australian federal elections from the division's creation in 1934 until the present. Griffith, QLD, 2022 Tally Room...
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    Griffith Park is a large municipal park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The...
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    gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday November 2, Incumbent Democratic governor David Pryor defeated Republican candidate Leon Griffith with 83.24%...
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    Francis Matthew John Baker (category Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Griffith)
    remained in parliament until 1939 when he was killed in a motor accident. His death resulted in the 1939 Griffith by-election. In 1936, Baker led a proposal...
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    Griffith is an early inner-south suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Griffith contains the Manuka Shopping Centre, one of the...
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    Clark Calvin Griffith (November 20, 1869 – October 27, 1955, ), nicknamed "the Old Fox", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, manager and...
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    Martha Wright Griffiths (January 29, 1912 – April 22, 2003) was an American lawyer and judge before being elected to the United States House of Representatives...
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  • Post and the contesting of a single by-election in Hythe, Kent in 1939. The campaign for the 1939 Hythe by-election, in which former Labour Party member...
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  • warrants the holding of elections". In the first Dáil, four Sinn Féin TDs represented two constituencies: Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Eoin MacNeill and...
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    previous general election. However Labour put up a strong challenge against Griffith at the by-election, losing by just 89 votes. Griffith got 36.3% of the...
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    patronage system) is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends (cronyism), and relatives...
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    conviction in January 1950. Bernard also employed Herman Griffith on his congressional staff. Griffith was a leading Popular Front activist and self-announced...
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  • Bramwell Jones and Nathan Griffiths for three years. The by-elections were held on 25 November, with five of the seats being won by Independent candidates...
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  • closer to war with Germany as the crisis intensified in the summer of 1939. Griffiths noted that there had been other MPs who expressed pro-Nazi feelings...
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    The 1984 United States presidential election was the 50th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican President...
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    The 1939 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame were the last ones conducted prior to the Hall's opening that year. Needing just one...
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    The 1872 United States presidential election was the 22nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1872. Despite a split in the...
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    The Birth of a Nation (category Films directed by D. W. Griffith)
    directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman. Griffith co-wrote...
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    Neville Chamberlain (category Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940)
    Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, the Minister of Health, lost his seat in the 1922 election and was defeated in a by-election in March 1923 by future home...
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    States presidential election in Tennessee was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states...
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    States presidential election was the 21st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1868. In the first election of the Reconstruction...
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    1968; he was elected to the House of Representatives at the Higgins by-election on 24 February 1968. As of 18 November 2024 "The Ministry". Parliament...
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    Michael F. By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876. (2008). 304 pages, ISBN 978-0-7006-1608-4 Flick, Alexander C. (1939). Samuel J. Tilden...
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    anti-semitism, 1939-40, by Richard Griffiths Pages 226 and 229, Patriotism perverted : Captain Ramsay, the Right Club, and British anti-semitism, 1939-40, by Richard...
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    World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers...
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    1905 – 28 January 1913 Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi: 11 April 1913 – 23 June 1939 Simon Seeiso Griffith: 3 August 1939 – 26 December 1940 Gabasheane Masupha...
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    States presidential election in California was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50...
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