The Pittsburgh Press (August 14, 1946)
Vermont, Carolina, Arkansas vote
By the United Press
The following are the election results in Vermont, South Carolina and Arkansas:
In Vermont, where the Republican nomination is equivalent to election, Ralph E. Flanders, New England industrialist and banker, defeated Sterry R. Waterman, St. Johnsbury lawyer, for the Republican senatorial nomination.
Mr. Flanders will succeed Warren R. Austin, who resigned to become U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
Gov. Mortimer R. Proctor was defeated for renomination by former U.S. Sen. Ernest W. Gibson, and Rep. Charles A. Plumley, 71, Vermont’s only representative in Congress, was renominated for his eighth term.
In South Carolina, Rep. Butler B. Hare, South Carolina Democrat, a veteran of 16 years in the House, was defeated for the nomination from South Carolina’s third district by Wilham Jennings Brying Dorn, 27, a Greenwood, S.C., war veteran.
In the South Carolina Democratic gubernatorial race, Judge J. Strom Thurmond and Dr. James McLeod led a field of 11 candidates and will face each other in a run-off election September 3. Gov. Ransome J. Williams ran third in the contest.
In Arkansas, ex-GI politicians running in the Democratic run-off primary were leading in their battle to oust intrenched political machines in several counties.