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Election returns courtesy of Richard Winger. Biographical data (links) from cited references and from other sources which appear to the Editor to be trustworthy. |
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Candidate Name
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Vote Total
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% Vote |
| 1915 | ||||||||
Charles Hiram Randall, born in Auburn, Nemaha County, Nebraska 23 July 1865, attended public schools, published newspapers at Kimball and at Harrisburg, Nebraska 1885-1992. From 1992-1904, Randall worked as a railway mail clerk. He moved to California in 1904, there working as a newspaper editor and publisher. He was a member of the Municipal Park Commission of Los Angeles in 1909-10, a member of the State Assembly 1911-1912, and was elected to Congress on the Prohibition ticket in 1915 through 1921. He was defeated for re-election in 1920. In the 1918 election Randall was listed as "Prohibition/Democratic." He received 38,782 votes (52.99%). In the 1920 election, he was again listed as "Prohibition/Democratic" and received 36,675 votes (34.78%). Randall was a member of the City Council of Los Angeles in 1925-1933. He was again defeated for Congress in 1934. He died in Los Angeles on 18 February 1951 and is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, at Glendale. (Adapted from "United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997," by Michael J. Dubin.) |
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| 1940 | ||||||||
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Fred Dyster | 366,044 | 13.51 | * |
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C.H. Farman | 10,539 |
7.08 | * |
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Charles H. Randall | 36,406 |
21.67 | * |
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Emil E. Fredeen | 4,183 |
8.53 | * |
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Paul R. Jarman | 975 |
2.64 | |||||
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Percy Fenton Adams | 7,384 | 6.21 | |||||
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Virgil G. Hinshaw | 17,134 | 12.29 | |||||
| 1942 |
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Fred Dyster | 366,044 | 13.51 | * | |||
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Fred Dyster |
10,640 |
0.48 | |||||
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Claude A. Watson |
81,988 |
3.99 | |||||
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Robert P. Shuler |
40,780 |
43.16 | |||||
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B. Tarkington Dowden |
10,185 |
9.93 | |||||
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Virgil G. Hinshaw |
6,864 |
5.31 | |||||
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Henry R. Schmidt |
176,472 |
17.12 | |||||
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Elmer E. Freedeen |
68,753 |
8.76 | |||||
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Hawley N. Bidwell |
2,065 |
7.72 | |||||
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Earl R.Chalfant |
804 |
3.53 | |||||
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Royal B. Churchill |
1,377 |
5.00 | |||||
| 1944 | ||||||||
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Johannes Nielsen-Lange | 2,694 | 1.53 | |||||
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Charles H. Randall | 3,615 | 1.66 | |||||
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Wesley G. Edwards | 4,221 | 13.69 | * |
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Royal B. Churchill | 4,347 | 10.59 | * |
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| 1946 | ||||||||
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Henry R. Schmidt | 180,579 |
7.15 |
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Virgil G. Hinshaw | 207,690 |
8.93 |
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Claude A. Watson | 85,688 |
3.33 |
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Douglas Corrigan | 42,683 |
1.61 |
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John Henry Hoeppel | 1,476 |
1.26 |
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| 1950 | ||||||||
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Virgil G. Hinshaw | 172,458 | 5.2 |
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Claude A. Watson | 96,732 | 2.69 | |||||
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Frank Nelson | 10,339 | 4.17 |
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Harry R. Schmidt | 193,259 | 14.65 |
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"Henry R. Schmidt" in 1946 and "Harry R. Schmidt" in 1950 probably are the same person -- names are as shown on the respective ballots. |
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Charles H. Randall | 3,045 | 15.58 |
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Charles G. Doehrer | 952 | 1.51 | |||||
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| 1952 | ||||||||
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Frank Nelson |
(write-in, no tally) |
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Roland P. Young |
5,251 |
9.28 |
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Claude A. Watson | 332,173 | 30.35 | |||||
| 1954 | ||||||||
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Frank G.H. Stevens | 70,318 | 1.79 | |||||
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Fred H. Ross | 46,760 | 1.20 | |||||
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Edwin M. Cooper | 204,171 | 5.46 | * |
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Frank Nelson | 46,665 | 2.91 | |||||
| 1956 | ||||||||
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Ray Gourley | 22,410 | 0.42 | |||||
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Frank Nelson | 844 | 1.19 | |||||
| 1958 | ||||||||
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Mel J. Miller | 129,140 | 2.52 | |||||
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Leslie E. Rice | 1,297 | 2.45 | |||||
| 1979 | ||||||||
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William C. Bledsoe | 4,346 |
8.98 |
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| 1980 | ||||||||
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Eugene Armistead | 46,353 | 44.12 | |||||