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Article: WILSON-HUGHES ELECTION KEPT US IN THE DARK.(COMMENTARY)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 1996
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Byline: GEORGE TUCKER
I had just turned seven when I experienced my first presidential election. It was the cliffhanger of November 1916 between Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat who had been in the White House since 1913, and Charles Evans Hughes, a former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who had stepped down from the bench earlier the same year to serve as the Republican candidate.
Incidentally, Wilson had visited the Norfolk area in 1907 during the Jamestown Exposition. Later, he had been hailed as ``the next president of the United States'' when he addressed the Pewter Platter Club, a group of prominent Norfolk area Democrats, at a banquet at ...