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ARTICLES RELATED TO Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences | | | |  Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequencesMcMath's standing has been enhanced by contemporary re-examinations of his administration's extraordinary accomplishments, given the poverty and parsimony of the era. These included the use of an unprecedented bond issue to secure the paving of more hard surface roads than all previous administrations combined (and more than those paved by any other Southern state during the period), taxing cigarettes to build the state's medical college, a policy of openness and inclusion toward African-Americans generally and a concerted public school impr ...
See also:Sid McMath, Sid McMath - Early life, Sid McMath - War service, Sid McMath - Early career in politics, Sid McMath - Governor of Arkansas, Sid McMath - Defeat for third term and U.S. Senate, Sid McMath - Trial law practice, Sid McMath - Later life, Sid McMath - Historical evaluation, Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences, Sid McMath - Legacy, Sid McMath - Death Read more here: » Sid McMath: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences |
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| | | | Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Legacy Sid McMath served a bare six years in public office, only four as governor. He left behind no powerful political organization or claque of partisans. Gambling in Hot Springs, though subdued from its brazen heydey, returned sporadically for another 20 years. Every Arkansas home eventually would have been wired for electricity — although up to a decade later and under AP&L monopoly pricing rather than lower Co-op rates. The Interstate highway system was mostly completed through Arkansas by 1980 — tying into the thousands of miles of fa ...
See also:Sid McMath, Sid McMath - Early life, Sid McMath - War service, Sid McMath - Early career in politics, Sid McMath - Governor of Arkansas, Sid McMath - Defeat for third term and U.S. Senate, Sid McMath - Trial law practice, Sid McMath - Later life, Sid McMath - Historical evaluation, Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences, Sid McMath - Legacy, Sid McMath - Death Read more here: » Sid McMath: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Legacy |
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| | | | Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Historical evaluation In a 1999 opinion poll of political science professors McMath placed fourth on a list of top Arkansas Governors of the 20th century. However, in a December 2003 forum of historians and journalists sponsored by the Old State House Museum in Little Rock, there was a consensus that McMath's historic highway and school building programs, his early commitment to civil rights, particularly his support of President Harry S. Truman in the 1948 presidential election against Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond, the abolition of the so called "white primary" in A ...
See also:Sid McMath, Sid McMath - Early life, Sid McMath - War service, Sid McMath - Early career in politics, Sid McMath - Governor of Arkansas, Sid McMath - Defeat for third term and U.S. Senate, Sid McMath - Trial law practice, Sid McMath - Later life, Sid McMath - Historical evaluation, Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences, Sid McMath - Legacy, Sid McMath - Death Read more here: » Sid McMath: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Historical evaluation |
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| | | | Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Trial law practice Following his 1952 defeat, McMath returned to the practice of law and over the next half-century became one of the leading consumer trial attorneys in the United States. His cases set a broad range of legal precedents, including the first million-dollar personal injury verdict in a U.S. District Court (for an injured barge crewman, in 1968), a woman's right to recover for the loss of her husband's consortium (an element of damage previously limited to men), manufacturers' responsibility for harm caused by defective products and negligent adv ...
See also:Sid McMath, Sid McMath - Early life, Sid McMath - War service, Sid McMath - Early career in politics, Sid McMath - Governor of Arkansas, Sid McMath - Defeat for third term and U.S. Senate, Sid McMath - Trial law practice, Sid McMath - Later life, Sid McMath - Historical evaluation, Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences, Sid McMath - Legacy, Sid McMath - Death Read more here: » Sid McMath: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Trial law practice |
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| | | | Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Governor of Arkansas After success as a prosecutor, McMath was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1948 in a close election. His Democratic run-off opponent, a former attorney general, accused him of "selling out to the Negro vote." He entered office January 11, 1949 as the nation's youngest governor. He was reelected in 1950 by a wide margin over his immediate predecessor, former governor Ben Laney, who attacked McMath for supporting Truman in 1948, when Laney and a number of other southern governors bolted the Democratic party over its civil rights plank. The walk ...
See also:Sid McMath, Sid McMath - Early life, Sid McMath - War service, Sid McMath - Early career in politics, Sid McMath - Governor of Arkansas, Sid McMath - Defeat for third term and U.S. Senate, Sid McMath - Trial law practice, Sid McMath - Later life, Sid McMath - Historical evaluation, Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences, Sid McMath - Legacy, Sid McMath - Death Read more here: » Sid McMath: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Governor of Arkansas |
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| | | | Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Early career in politics After the war, McMath and other veterans banded together to fight corruption in the Hot Springs city government which was dominated by illegal gambling interests. Hot Springs at the time was a national gambling mecca frequented by organized crime figures from Chicago, New York City and other metropolitan areas. Casinos flourished and hotels advertised the availability of prostitutes. Mobsters maintained political control by purchasing and holding hundreds of poll tax receipts, often in the names of deceased or fictitious persons, which would ...
See also:Sid McMath, Sid McMath - Early life, Sid McMath - War service, Sid McMath - Early career in politics, Sid McMath - Governor of Arkansas, Sid McMath - Defeat for third term and U.S. Senate, Sid McMath - Trial law practice, Sid McMath - Later life, Sid McMath - Historical evaluation, Sid McMath - Bold positions & political consequences, Sid McMath - Legacy, Sid McMath - Death Read more here: » Sid McMath: Encyclopedia II - Sid McMath - Early career in politics |
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