Excerpt from Official Vote of the State of Illinois Cast at the Primary Election Held on April 11, 1944 Down Office, party and cand1dates. S ta te. President OF the united states. Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt 25, 995 Scattering 343 Republican Douglas macarthur 332, 902 Riley A. Bender 23, 460 Thomas Dewey 5, 266 Everett Dirksen 581 J ohn Bricker 148 Harold E. Stassen 111 Wendell 107 Scattering 21 'united states senator. Democratic Scott W Lucas 107 611 Scattering 3 Republican William Jg. Baker 36, 275 Richard J. Lyons 326, 406 Deneen A. Watson 49, 216 Scattering_ 4 governor. Democratic Thomas J Courtney 104, 153 Scattering 1 Republican Oscar E. Carlstrom 7 2, 442 Dwight H. Green lieutenan T governor. Democratic Edward C. (ted) Hunter 94, 952 Republican Hugh W. Cross 366, 487 Scattering 1 secretary OF state. Democratic Edward J Barrett 102, 670 Scattering 1 Republican Arnold P. Benson 231, 839 William G. Stratton 204, 819 auditor OF public accounts. Democratic_. William Vicars 91, 196 Republican Arthur C. Lueder 359, 756 state treasurer. Democratic Earl W. Merritt 93 204 Republican Conrad F. Becker 244, 638 Walter W. Waite 79, 880 Taylor E. Wilhelm Scattering 1 attorney general. Sveinbjorn Johnson Republican -georg e F. Barrett 334 500 Lloyd C. Moody 1_. I clerk OF the supreme court. Democratic Casimir Griglik 87, 867 Republican _1 _earle Benj amin Searcy 346, 828. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.