Stassen Loses in Bid for Congressional Seat
Perennial presidential candidate Harold E. Stassen, dubbed the “boy wonder” when he was elected governor in 1938, lost the congressional bid that would have put him back in office after a 44-year absence.
Incumbent Democratic-Farm-Labor Party Rep. Bruce Vento defeated Stassen, an Independent-Republican, in Tuesday’s 4th District race by a 3-1 margin.
The 79-year-old Stassen, a seven-time presidential candidate, had been reelected governor for the second time when he resigned in April, 1943, to serve in the Navy during World War II.
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