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Summerfield's rapid rise from Flint to national GOP chair
Flint businessman Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield rose from organizing a Willkie rally in 1940 to national Republican chairman and Eisenhower campaign manager. Known for the “Summerfield Plan” in fund raising, he led Michigan delegates and influenced the 1952 nomination before taking the post of Postmaster General designee.
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