Governors
A six-year trend was reversed. On Election Day there were 26 Republicans, 22 Democratic governors. When the voting was over (barring last-minute shifts), it was just the other way about. The U.S. had 26 Democratic and 22 Republican governors. From the G.O.P. to the Democratic side: Idaho, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Washington. From Democratic to G.O.P.: North Dakota.
Bay State. The Democrats took over Massachusetts' gold-domed State Capitol. Tub-thumping Maurice J. Tobin, 43, Boston's mayor for the past seven years, an expert machine politician and personable Irishman, won by an F.D.R. coattail over the G.O.P.'s Horace Cahill.
Show-Me State. In key Missouri, the Democrats scored an upset. The victor: tall, silver-haired Phil M. Donnelly, veteran state legislator. The loser: his fellow townsman (Lebanon) Jean Paul Bradshaw, 38.
Nutmeg State. For the second time in a gubernatorial election, Connecticut's able, internationalist G.O.P. Governor Raymond Baldwin took the measure of the Democrats' New Dealing, ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley.
Cornhusker State. "This shouldn't happen to a donkey," groaned Nebraska's Democratic leaders over the campaign (no rootin', no tootin') waged by homespun George W. Olsen, their elderly, circle-squaring busboy candidate (TIME, Sept. 25). It didn't. Winner: G.O.P.'s solid Governor Dwight Griswold.
Evergreen State. In war-boomed Washington the G.O.P.'s square-jawed Governor Arthur B. Langlie went out. In went the Democratic's shrewd, poker-playing U.S. Senator (and Truman committeeman) Mon C. Wallgren.
Buckeye State. Ohio swept out the Republican (Ed Schorr) machine, swept in a new kind of Democratic politician: gangling, idealistic, good-government crusader Frank Lausche, 48, mayor of Cleveland. A party independent, Frank Lausche beat a party hack, James Garfield ("Jovial Jim") Stewart, longtime mayor of Cincinnati and roly-poly, flag-waving, glad-handing master of political cliches.
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