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Minnesota trio in GOP drift fielding Stassen and Humphrey
The piece traces Minnesota figures Joseph H. Ball Harold E. Stassen and Hubert E. Humphrey as liberal reformers in the Republican rise and JFK era. It notes Ball’s shift to a Washington lobbyist role, Stassen’s high profile bids and Logan Act concerns, and Humphrey as a potential future leader amid party upheaval. It also references Duff’s defeat of Stassen’s proxy and tensions with the party old guard.
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State of Minnesota
United States Senate
Joe Ball
Senate
Minnesota
Washington
Eclipse
Harold E. Stassen
Abraham Lincoln
Harold Stassen
Old Guard
Joe Grundy
Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
James Henderson Duff
Duff
Stassen
United States
Joe Stalin
Moscow