The Governors
The polls had been closed only two hours when Tom Dewey's lieutenants broadcast their victory claim from the ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt. Not much later, their exuberance was fortified by fact--New Yorkers had decisively rehired Thomas Edmund Dewey for a third term as governor.
The famous Hanley letter had apparently not hurt Tom Dewey much. He trimmed Fair Dealing Congressman Walter A. Lynch by more than 500,000 votes.
As in New York, Republicans picked up most of the big marbles in the nation's 32 gubernatorial elections, upset at least six Democratic incumbents.
Other results:
P: In Ohio, popular Governor Frank Lausche, who made little secret of his admiration for Republican Bob Taft, sidestepped an otherwise complete Republican sweep in Ohio, was re-elected with a 128,000-vote margin.
P: In Pennsylvania, sy-year-old Republican John Sidney Fine, Big Jim Duff's hand-picked running mate, won the governorship in a close race against enterprising Philadelphia City Treasurer Richardson Dilworth.
P: In South Carolina, James F. Byrnes, once Harry Truman's Secretary of State and now one of his bitterest critics, was elected without opposition. CJ In Maryland, Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, onetime mayor of Baltimore, beat Governor William Preston Lane Jr. to complete the G.O.P. triumph in the state.
P: In Massachusetts, bluff, moon-faced Governor Paul Andrew Dever gave the Democrats their one resounding victory in the gubernatorial scramble. Running for a second term, he swamped conservative, aged (69) Arthur William Coolidge, a fourth cousin of Calvin Coolidge.
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