Senate Campaign

File — Box: 19, Folder: 23

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Bennetts Republican primary opponent was former Governor J. Bracken Lee and in the final campaign it was Congressman David King. Although the Senator wrote to various people that he believed the campaign would be close he was confident that he would win. He attributed his eventual victory to being "better organized over a broader base with more people than COPE...[and] all of our people were volunteers....we can identify nearly 15,000 people around the state who participated in specific and planned programs...as a result of this win he became the ranking Republican in the Banking and Currency Committee. Very limited material including a few items of correspondence and a short list of finance company officers who contributed financially.

Dates

1946-1978

Conditions Governing Access

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