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Information on Claude Raymond Wickard
Claude Raymond Wickard
Notable Facts
Served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (Under President Franklin Roosevelt/Harry Truman) from 1940-1945
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Indiana Senate
Carroll
,
Clinton
,
White
Counties
In office
Nov 9, 1932 to Aug 1, 1933
Party:
Democratic
Assumed:
General Election
Left:
Resigned
Claude Raymond Wickard spent 8 months, 25 days in office in Indiana, all of it at the state level.
Elections
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1956–U.S. Senate (Class 3)
LOST
General Election–Tuesday, November 6, 1956
55.21%
Homer Capehart
(i)*
, Republican, 1,084,262 votes
44.39%
Claude Raymond Wickard
, Democratic, 871,781 votes
0.34%
Carl W. Thompson
, Prohibition, 6,685 votes
0.06%
Gordon A. Long
, Socialist Labor, 1,258 votes
Out of
1,963,986
votes casts, the margin of victory was
212,481
(10.82%)
In the 1 races for which we have results, Claude Raymond Wickard had a record of 0-1. That includes a record of 0-1 in 1 general election.
