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Party Meetings Hold Interest Inactive Democratic Primary Campaign Heads Into Final Week
The 1960 Democratic gubernatorial and legislative primary heads into its final week with focus on the Republican convention in Roanoke and Democratic endorsement in Richmond. Ted Dalton and Albertis Harrison Jr. loom as leading candidates for statewide posts while House districts show crowded or unopposed contests across Virginia. A Sunday twist sees Hampton nominate its first Republican candidate for the House in over a century.
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Tive
House of Delegates
Roanoke
Richmond
Ted Dalton
Radford
Thomas B. Stanley
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
Lawrenceville
Howard C. Gilmer Jr
Pulaski
Dalton
Democratic Committee
Gilmer
Virginia Assn. of Life Underwriters
Virginia
Harrison
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Howard H. Carwile
Almond
Alexandria
Arlington
Charlottesville
Fredericksburg
Spot- Sylvania
Halifax
Hanover
King William
Lynchburg
Madison Culpeper - Orange
Norfolk
Pittsylvania
Portsmouth
Prince William Stafford
City of Richmond
Abingdon
del. T. C. Phillips
Senate
George M. Warren
Bristol
Smyth County
Crockett Gwyn
Marion
Washington County
Phillips Warren
Phillips
Gwyn
Pearisung
J. Livingston Dillon
Pearlsburg
House
Abindon
Democrats
Deis
Fred C. Buck
Stuart Carter
Lebanon
Russell County
W. C. Eliott
Page
Warren
Charles R. Russell
Front Royal
del. C. D. Price
Hampton
Thomas P. Dickinson