Tuesday 40 - 50 cloudy. I put plastic in 2 dining room windows and cut out blue dress and made it. Carol, Clifton and I went to vote then down to LaVerne and Roberta's a few minutes. Sue went home with Diana Cornell.
Comment: Election Day. Our family always voted mostly Democratic in a sea of surrounding Republicans except for the Democratic machine in Albany.
Dan O'Connell 's Irish democrats dominated the Albany and New York City areas from about 1920 to 1977 and helped Truman beat Dewey in 1948 in a very close election. Major newspapers published articles of Truman's defeat that were proved erroneous after later returns from Albany and New York came in. Here is an article about Gilboa Democrats written by brother LaVerne and he writes of Dad's tied election in 1947. I clearly remember that incident.....
"Gilboa Democrats (1930s–1950s)
There were three polling places in the town of Gilboa during 1930s and ’40s:
- The one-room schoolhouse near Route 23 in South Gilboa
- The town hall on oldStryker Road (where our family voted)
- The Jackson law office in Mackey on Mace Road
The school in South Gilboa is still there—the Forks-in-the-Road schoolhouse. The town hall (and its next-door neighbor, the United Methodist Church) were moved out of the flood plain up Route 990V: the town hall is the home of the Gilboa Historical Society’s museum, and the church again serves the parishioners from the top of that hill. The law office was also moved, and is now on display at the Old Stone Fort complex in Schoharie.
Party politics in the town of Gilboa has remained much the same over
many decades, with only a few Democrats winning office, most as a result of
the Democratic sweep of 1933: Democrats Elmer Hubbard, Supervisor; Sidney Keyser, Justice; Emmet Becker, Assessor; and Maurice Hager, Collector all won.
The next Democrat to win was in 1943 when Clifton Hubbard won the office of Superintendent of Highways, defeating the incumbent superintendent
Louis Kingsley. Hubbard won again in 1945.
But in 1947, Emmett Souer (brother of Jesse Hamilton, a member of the State Republican Committee) was nominated to run on the Republican ticket. The result was a tie, with each candidate receiving 257 votes. This was resolved with the compromise that Hubbard would continue for the first year of the two-year term, when Souer would be named Highway Superintendent for the second.
After this election, I believe the only other Democrat to be elected in Gilboa
was James Lafferty to the position of town justice in 1956." By Clifton LaVerne Hubbard, Gilboa Historical Society, Fall 2011
1 comment:
From Susan Hubbard:
Diana Cornell got 100 on the regents in Math, became an anesthesiologist, but lost her Dr. license due to using drugs, got that straightened out in her life, was married and divorced at an early age, married again after several years to an airplane pilot for a major airline, had three beautiful, talented children, and one granddaughter, with another one on the way, and in March, or April this year, committed suicide. She was a manic depressant. Very tragic. Susan
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