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GOP Hopes Rise for Southern Senate Wins in 1972
In a year shaped by the deaths of two veteran Southern senators and a Democratic primary defeat, Republicans push to win Senate seats in Georgia North Carolina Louisiana and Texas and challenge entrenched incumbents. The South Georgia North Carolina and Louisiana races feature Democrat incumbents facing Republican rivals with Nixon administration ties while Alabama Mississippi Virginia and Arkansas campaigns loom large.
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William L. Chaze
Associated Press
Atlanta, Ga
Nixon
Georgia
North Carolina
Louisiana
Allen Ellender
Richard Russell
Senate
Bob Shaw
Atlanta
Everett Jordan
Alabama
Arkansas
Virginia
South Carolina
Texas
Tennessee
Mississippi
James C. Eastland
Meridian
Gil Carmichael
Eastland
Strom Thurmond
Nick Zeigler
Zeigler
Thurmond
J. Bennett Johnston
Shreveport
Ben Toledano
New Orleans
Hall Lyons
John McKeithen
McKeithen
Ellender
Toledano
Tidelands
Johnston
Fletcher Thompson
East Point
Sam Nunn
Perry
Thompson
Congress
Nunn
Winton Blount
John ‘Sparkman
Sparkman
Blount
Spiro Agnew
Barry Goldwater
Earl Butz
George C. Wallace
Montgomery
William Spung
William L. Scott
Fairfax
Horace Henderson
Virginia Beach