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Citizens Boys State vote narrows governor race
Hawkeye Boys State voters chose among two youths for governor with 16 to 17 year old candidates Mike Glenn of Sidney and Charles Jons of Sac City facing platforms urging reapportionment of the Iowa House and lowering the voting age. Each party proposed education and tax policies and a ban on future bonded debt.
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Des Moines
Hawkeye Boys
Mike Glenn
Sidney
Federalist Party
Nationalist
Charles Jons
Sac City
House of Representatives
Representatives
Iowa House
Nationalist Party
Federalists
Iowa
Curtis G. Powell
Comanche
Tom Norris
Indianola
Joe Cherum
Fairfield
Jim Kennedy
Spirit Lake
Jerry L. Wade
Havelock
Francis Voigt
Oskaloosa
Kurt Bennett
Sioux City
Jerome Winston
Marshalltown
Mick Welch
Sanford Fitch
Redfield
John Dickkitt
Steven Hoth
Lamont
Commerce Commission
Donald Iverson
Wallingford
Ron Grant
Bondurant
Tom Ervin
Rockford
Robert Kruse
Mount Vernon
Doug Selby
Bettendorf
Dick Squires
Cresco
Supreme Court
Harlan Bell
St. Ansgar
Bob Nieman
Charles City
Rick Wear
Keokuk
David Holmes
Kellerton
Mike Valder
Osage
John
Kurt Bennet
Mile Welch
Agriculture