[EL] a presidential history question I wish I knew the answer to

[Richard Winger]

I wish I knew when Dwight D. Eisenhower first registered as a Republican.  I just finished the book "Harry and Ike."  It quotes him as saying in June 1952 that he had never voted until the general election of 1948, when he voted for Thomas Dewey for President; then he had voted in November 1949 in a special election for US Senate and he had voted for John Foster Dulles; then he had voted in November 1950 for the re-election of Governor Thomas Dewey.  These were all votes cast in New York state.

Other parts of the book imply that he had never registered to vote until 1948, when he moved to New York and became President of Columbia University. And in 1948, he registered "independent."

He was in Europe, overseeing NATO, until June 1952, when he came back to the U.S. and declared that he would seek the Republican nomination that year.  If New York law then is as it is now, he would have been permitted to change his registration from "independent" to "Republican" in June 1952, but the change would have gone into a "lockbox" and not be acted upon until 1953.  If this is all correct, then officially he was a registered independent when he was nominated on July 10, 1952, in Chicago, even though he would have already signaled his intention to become a registered Republican effective 1953.  Anyone know more about this?

Richard Winger

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--- On Thu, 9/27/12, Goldfeder, Jerry H. <jgoldfeder at stroock.com> wrote:

From: Goldfeder, Jerry H. <jgoldfeder at stroock.com>
Subject: [EL] #270DAILYQUIZ  PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS DAILY QUIZ September 27, 2012
To: "Goldfeder, Jerry H." <jgoldfeder at stroock.com>, "'law-election at UCI.edu'" <law-election at uci.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 7:07 AM



 
 




   
#270DailyQuiz:  Which two 20th Century Presidents secured an electoral college victory thanks to “fusion voting”?
   
   
   
Answer to previous question:    Who was the most recent presiding officer of the Senate to announce his own election to the Presidency?  
 George H.W. Bush [9/24/12] 
   
   
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