Editor’s note: first in a series.
The Chattanooga Daily Times, in early coverage of the presidential campaign in January 1956, reported that the Democratic Party was already witnessing an “open and active contest” between four candidates with the most “public familiarity.”
Those contestants were: Adlai Stevenson, 1952 Democratic presidential candidate and former governor of Illinois; Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee; New York Gov. Averell Harriman; and Ohio Gov. Frank Lausche. The reporter noted that the four were “wisely campaigning less against each other and more against the common enemy” — the current president, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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