Seven Dartmouth Congressmen

Dartmouth went into the November 3 elections with seven alumni in the U. S. House of Representatives and came out with the same number, although there was one new member in the group. Clark MacGregor "44, representing the 3rd District in Minnesota, relinquished his House seat to be the Republican opponent of Hubert Humphrey in the Minnesota senatorial race, but lost by 220,000 votes. However, his 3rd District seat was won by William E. Frenzel '50 (R), so one Dartmouth man replaced another.

The other six House members were reelected: David T. Martin '29 (R) in the 3rd District, Nebraska; Robert McClory '30 (R) in the 12th District, Illinois; Herman T. Schneebeli '30 (R) in the 17th District, Pennsylvania; John S. Monagan '33 (D) in the 5th District, Connecticut; Henry P. Smith 3rd '33 (R) in the 40th District, New York; and William E. Minshall '35 (R) in the 23 rd District, Ohio.

In one of the closest gubernatorial races. Attorney General James S. Erwin '42 (R) of Maine finished only 700 votes or so behind incumbent Governor Kenneth M. Curtis (D) out of a total of 320,000 votes cast. A recount was scheduled to begin November 23, and as we went to press it was undetermined whether Dartmouth might have a third governor to go along with Governor Nelson Rockefeller '30 of New York, who was reelected handily to an unprecedented fourth term, and Governor Walter R. Peterson '47 of New Hampshire, who was reelected to a second term in a close race.

U. S. Senator Thomas J. McIntyre '37 (D) of New Hampshire was not up for reelection this year.