1952 United States presidential election in Tennessee

none June 2025 September 2023 1952 United States presidential election 1952 United States presidential election in Tennessee Tennessee 1923 presidential no 1948 United States presidential election in Tennessee 1948 1956 United States presidential election in Tennessee 1956 November 4, 1952https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1952 United States Presidential election of 1952 — Encyclopædia Britannica July 25, 2017 x200px Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop.jpg Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party (United States) New Yorkhttp://www.fofweb.com/History/HistRefMain.asp?iPin=EAPPE0334&SID=2&DatabaseName=American+History+Online&InputText=%22presidential+election+1952%22&SearchStyle=&dTitle=U.S.+presidential+election%2C+1952&TabRecordType=Subject+Entry&BioCountPass=0&SubCountPass=1&DocCountPass=0&ImgCountPass=0&MapCountPass=0&FedCountPass=&MedCountPass=0&NewsCountPass=0&RecPosition=1&AmericanData=Set U.S. presidential election, 1952 Facts on File October 24, 2013 Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195323/http://www.fofweb.com/History/HistRefMain.asp?iPin=EAPPE0334&SID=2&DatabaseName=American+History+Online&InputText=%22presidential+election+1952%22&SearchStyle=&dTitle=U.S.+presidential+election%2C+1952&TabRecordType=Subject+Entry&BioCountPass=0&SubCountPass=1&DocCountPass=0&ImgCountPass=0&MapCountPass=0&FedCountPass=&MedCountPass=0&NewsCountPass=0&RecPosition=1&AmericanData=Set October 29, 2013 dead Richard Nixon 11 446,147 49.99% Adlai Stevenson close-up.jpg Adlai Stevenson Democratic Party (United States) Illinois John Sparkman 0 443,710 49.71% 350px County results 350px Congressional district results 350px Eisenhower #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% Stevenson #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% President Harry S. Truman Democratic Party (United States) Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party (United States) The 1952 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.1952 Presidential Election Results – Tennessee http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1952&fips=47&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas For over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee was divided according to political loyalties established in that war. Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee, Kentucky Pennyroyal-allied Macon County, and the five Western Highland Rim counties of Carroll, Henderson, McNairy, Hardin and WayneWright John K. Voting Habits in the United States: A Note on Two Maps Geographical Review 22 4 October 1932 666–672 10.2307/208821 208821 1932GeoRv..22..666W voted Republican — generally by landslide margins — as they saw the Democratic Party as the "war party" who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.Key (Jr.), Valdimer Orlando; Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York, 1949), pp. 282-283 Contrariwise, the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state's secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction.Lyons William Scheb (II) John M. Stair Billy Government and Politics in Tennessee 2001 183–184 Univ. of Tennessee Press 1572331410 After the disfranchisement of the state's African-American population by a poll tax was largely complete in the 1890s,Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 9780691163246 the Democratic Party was certain of winning statewide elections if united,Grantham Dewey W. Tennessee and Twentieth-Century American Politics Tennessee Historical Quarterly 54 3 Fall 1995 210–229 although unlike the Deep South, Republicans almost always gained thirty to forty percent of the statewide vote from mountain and Highland Rim support. Between 1896 and 1948, the Republicans won statewide contests three times but only in the second did they receive down-ballot coattails by winning three congressional seats in addition to the rock-ribbed GOP First and Second Districts.Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 287 In the early 1910s, prohibitionist “Independent Democrats” fled the party and formed a coalition, known as the “Fusionists,” with Republicans to elect Ben W. Hooper Governor,Langsdon Phillip Tennessee: A Political History Franklin, Tennessee Hillsboro Press 2000 287–295 whilst in 1920 the national anti-Wilson and anti-League of Nations tide allowed the GOP to carry a few traditionally Democratic areas in Middle Tennessee and with them the state,Reichard Gary W. The Aberration of 1920: An Analysis of Harding's Victory in Tennessee The Journal of Southern History 36 1 February 1970 33–49 10.2307/2206601 2206601 and in 1928 anti-Catholicism against Democratic nominee Al Smith gave this powerfully fundamentalist state to Herbert Hoover.Larson Edward J. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion October 3, 2006 Basic Books 9780465075102 After the beginning of the Great Depression, for the next third of a century, Republicans rarely contested statewide offices seriously despite continuing dominance of East Tennessee and half a dozen Unionist counties in the middle and west of the state.Majors William R. Change and continuity: Tennessee politics since the Civil War 72 9780865542099 1986 Mercer University Press The Crump political machine that dominated state politics for a decade and a half, however, broke down in 1948 after Crump supported Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond but his own subordinates dissented knowing that a Democratic split would hand the state to the Republicans.Guthrie Paul Daniel The Dixiecrat Movement of 1948 181–182 Bowling Green State University 144207 1955 Even Crump's long-time ally Senator Kenneth D. McKellar broke with him,Phillip Royal Langsdon Tennessee: A Political History Franklin, Tennessee Hillsboro Press 2000 336–343 9781577361251 and a Middle Tennessee liberal, Estes Kefauver, won the state's Senate seat. In 1949, after a failed effort six years before,Ogden Frederic D. The poll tax in the South 193 1958 University of Alabama Press Tennessee substantially modified its poll tax and entirely abolished it two years later, largely because the Crump machine had “block bought” voters’ poll taxes.Ogden, The poll tax in the South, pp. 97-99 The abolition of the poll tax substantially increased voter turnout in Tennessee, if not to the same extent as in South Carolina. There was also the issue of the substantial Dixiecrat vote from 1948, especially with Thurmond's endorsement of Republican nominees former Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower and California Senator Richard Nixon.Mayer Michael S. The Eisenhower Years 2009 767 Infobase 978-1438119083 Predictions SourceRankingAs ofLansing State JournalCornell Douglas B. September 17, 1952 Ike Given 50–50 Chance To Break into Solid South 7, 16 Lansing State Journal Lansing, MichiganLikely DSeptember 17, 1952Lubbock Morning AvalancheCornell Douglas B. Most Southern States Continue to Back Demos Despite Sizeable Republican Inroads — GOP Has Even Chance to Carry Virginia, Texas, Florida Lubbock Morning Avalanche Lubbock, Texas 1952-10-24 11Tilt DOctober 24, 1952The Greeneville SunOctober 25, 1952 US Poll Shows — Eisenhower Leading Stevenson in Electoral Votes, but Governor Has More States in His Column 1, 8 The Greeneville Sun Greeneville, Tennessee Princeton Research ServiceLean DOctober 25, 1952The Modesto BeeOctober 27, 1952 NY Times Survey Indicates Close Election Tuesday 8 The Modesto Bee Modesto, CaliforniaLean DOctober 27, 1952The Commercial AppealThe Importance of You The Commercial Appeal Memphis, Tennessee 1952-10-31 6TossupOctober 31, 1952 Results 1952 United States presidential election in Tennessee Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party (United States) 446,147 49.99% Adlai Stevenson Democratic Party (United States) 443,710 49.71% Stuart Hamblen Prohibition #FF00FF 1,432 0.16% Vincent Hallinan People’s #ACE1AF 885 0.10% Douglas MacArthur Christian Nationalist #800080 379Except for two votes in Shelby County, votes for the Christian Nationalist Party were listed as a state-wide total and not by counties. 0.04% 892,553 100% Results by county CountyOur Campaigns https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2743 TN US President, November 04, 1952Dwight D. EisenhowerRepublicanAdlai StevensonDemocraticStuart HamblenProhibitionVincent HallinanPeople'sMarginTotal votescast # % # % # % # % # %Anderson10,48953.88%8,93945.92%380.20%00.00%1,5507.96%19,466Bedford2,61137.44%4,36262.56%00.00%00.00%-1,751-25.12%6,973Benton1,30434.57%2,45265.01%160.42%00.00%-1,148-30.44%3,772Bledsoe1,22950.85%1,15847.91%301.24%00.00%712.94%2,417Blount11,70869.22%5,16330.53%240.14%180.11%6,54538.69%16,913Bradley4,60663.36%2,64636.40%90.12%80.11%1,96026.96%7,269Campbell4,55765.63%2,34633.79%190.27%210.30%2,21131.84%6,943Cannon93037.97%1,49160.88%60.24%220.90%-561-22.91%2,449Carroll3,74156.46%2,84142.88%230.35%210.32%90013.58%6,626Carter9,01976.15%2,70722.86%1181.00%00.00%6,31253.29%11,844Cheatham53619.31%2,22280.04%50.18%130.47%-1,686-60.73%2,776Chester1,67453.01%1,48446.99%00.00%00.00%1906.02%3,158Claiborne3,22159.62%2,18240.38%00.00%00.00%1,03919.24%5,403Clay84246.24%96853.16%110.60%00.00%-126-6.92%1,821Cocke5,68882.02%1,24717.98%00.00%00.00%4,44164.04%6,935Coffee2,11037.25%3,53762.44%70.12%110.19%-1,427-25.19%5,665Crockett1,34338.27%2,15561.41%70.20%40.11%-812-23.14%3,509Cumberland3,28259.75%2,05937.48%811.47%711.29%1,22322.27%5,493Davidson35,91640.99%51,56258.84%810.09%710.08%-15,646-17.85%87,630Decatur1,40645.35%1,68154.23%130.42%00.00%-275-8.88%3,100DeKalb1,81448.21%1,94951.79%00.00%00.00%-135-3.58%3,763Dickson1,41525.22%4,19674.78%00.00%00.00%-2,781-49.56%5,611Dyer3,23141.30%4,53157.92%610.78%00.00%-1,300-16.62%7,823Fayette1,02946.73%1,17353.27%00.00%00.00%-144-6.54%2,202Fentress2,14369.65%93430.35%00.00%00.00%1,20939.30%3,077Franklin2,01529.48%4,78670.03%290.42%40.06%-2,771-40.55%6,834Gibson3,76635.90%6,68763.74%260.25%120.11%-2,921-27.84%10,491Giles1,64925.98%4,64073.11%290.46%290.46%-2,991-47.13%6,347Grainger3,03076.28%93723.59%20.05%30.08%2,09352.69%3,972Greene6,86464.98%3,65634.61%180.17%250.24%3,20830.37%10,563Grundy70921.47%2,58378.23%70.21%30.09%-1,874-56.76%3,302Hamblen5,03167.19%2,39531.98%620.83%00.00%2,63635.21%7,488Hamilton29,68155.14%23,83244.27%1390.26%1780.33%5,84910.87%53,830Hancock1,83079.50%45819.90%140.61%00.00%1,37259.60%2,302Hardeman1,25631.17%2,74768.18%80.20%180.45%-1,491-37.01%4,029Hardin2,45959.28%1,67740.43%120.29%00.00%78218.85%4,148Hawkins5,29568.19%2,40430.96%130.17%530.68%2,89137.23%7,765Haywood94027.80%2,43271.93%90.27%00.00%-1,492-44.13%3,381Henderson3,31767.45%1,60132.55%00.00%00.00%1,71634.90%4,918Henry2,42129.77%5,67769.81%120.15%220.27%-3,256-40.04%8,132Hickman1,04428.38%2,62571.35%40.11%60.16%-1,581-42.97%3,679Houston46527.45%1,22972.55%00.00%00.00%-764-45.10%1,694Humphreys89825.16%2,67074.81%10.03%00.00%-1,772-49.65%3,569Jackson1,13840.25%1,68659.64%30.11%00.00%-548-19.39%2,827Jefferson4,62278.87%1,22820.96%90.15%10.02%3,39457.91%5,860Johnson3,59087.65%50612.35%00.00%00.00%3,08475.30%4,096Knox44,35862.32%26,68137.48%1130.16%260.04%17,67724.84%71,178Lake48724.66%1,47574.68%60.30%70.35%-988-50.02%1,975Lauderdale1,39024.26%4,34075.74%00.00%00.00%-2,950-51.48%5,730Lawrence4,56151.07%4,29948.14%710.79%00.00%2622.93%8,931Lewis54029.05%1,30870.36%110.59%00.00%-768-41.31%1,859Lincoln1,65426.78%4,51073.01%80.13%50.08%-2,856-46.23%6,177Loudon4,31166.52%2,13832.99%170.26%150.23%2,17333.53%6,481Macon2,60269.20%1,15830.80%00.00%00.00%1,44438.40%3,760Madison7,24345.50%8,62354.17%300.19%230.14%-1,380-8.67%15,919Marion2,22742.91%2,93856.61%120.23%130.25%-711-13.70%5,190Marshall1,52528.44%3,83771.56%00.00%00.00%-2,312-43.12%5,362Maury3,58232.58%7,37767.09%360.33%00.00%-3,795-34.51%10,995McMinn5,77862.39%3,44037.15%180.19%250.27%2,33825.24%9,261McNairy3,42655.94%2,69844.06%00.00%00.00%72811.88%6,124Meigs85052.31%75446.40%20.12%191.17%965.91%1,625Monroe4,58155.11%3,69344.42%390.47%00.00%88810.69%8,313Montgomery2,57330.78%5,75968.90%170.20%100.12%-3,186-38.12%8,359Moore35430.00%82670.00%00.00%00.00%-472-40.00%1,180Morgan2,56563.22%1,49236.78%00.00%00.00%1,07326.44%4,057Obion2,68236.51%4,62362.94%320.44%80.11%-1,941-26.43%7,345Overton1,45339.47%2,20960.01%60.16%130.35%-756-20.54%3,681Perry76239.00%1,19261.00%00.00%00.00%-430-22.00%1,954Pickett1,00364.71%54735.29%00.00%00.00%45629.42%1,550Polk2,28355.63%1,82144.37%00.00%00.00%46211.26%4,104Putnam3,18343.73%4,09656.27%00.00%00.00%-913-12.54%7,279Rhea2,52054.46%2,09045.17%140.30%30.06%4309.29%4,627Roane5,58360.13%3,70239.87%00.00%00.00%1,88120.26%9,285Robertson1,83426.59%5,06373.41%00.00%00.00%-3,229-46.82%6,897Rutherford3,19631.77%6,79367.52%240.24%480.48%-3,597-35.75%10,061Scott3,27473.82%1,16126.18%00.00%00.00%2,11347.64%4,435Sequatchie53537.57%88261.94%70.49%00.00%-347-24.37%1,424Sevier7,24487.17%1,06612.83%00.00%00.00%6,17874.34%8,310Shelby65,17047.53%71,77952.36%1120.08%360.03%-6,609-4.83%137,099The total for this county includes two votes for Christian Nationalist candidate Douglas Macarthur.Smith1,41234.80%2,62264.61%150.37%90.22%-1,210-29.81%4,058Stewart64122.71%2,17076.87%10.04%110.39%-1,529-54.16%2,823Sullivan15,59656.58%11,84942.99%710.26%470.17%3,74713.59%27,563Sumner2,23328.10%5,67471.40%400.50%00.00%-3,441-43.30%7,947Tipton1,31219.54%5,35179.68%340.51%190.28%-4,039-60.14%6,716Trousdale26117.43%1,23682.57%00.00%00.00%-975-65.14%1,497Unicoi3,45374.81%1,16325.19%00.00%00.00%2,29049.62%4,616Union2,08775.78%66724.22%00.00%00.00%1,42051.56%2,754Van Buren39336.12%67461.95%100.92%111.01%-281-25.83%1,088Warren1,91234.68%3,56864.72%210.38%120.22%-1,656-30.04%5,513Washington12,02369.31%5,24530.24%430.25%360.21%6,77839.07%17,347Wayne2,43970.63%1,00829.19%40.12%20.06%1,43141.44%3,453Weakley3,04341.83%4,19857.70%340.47%00.00%-1,155-15.87%7,275White1,37437.00%2,31962.44%130.35%80.22%-945-25.44%3,714Williamson2,32636.17%4,08563.53%190.30%00.00%-1,759-27.36%6,430Wilson2,44932.57%5,07067.43%00.00%00.00%-2,621-34.86%7,519Totals446,14749.99%443,71049.71%1,4320.16%8850.10%2,4370.28%892,553This total includes 377 votes for Christian Nationalist candidate Douglas Macarthur that were not separated by county. Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Anderson Carroll Chester Hamilton Lawrence Meigs Sullivan Counties that flipped from Dixiecrat to Democratic Shelby Fayette Analysis Despite expectations that Democratic nominees Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II and running mate Alabama Senator John Sparkman had a slightly better chance of carrying the state, Tennessee was won by Eisenhower with 49.99 percent of the popular vote, against Stevenson's 49.71 percent. Eisenhower's 0.28 percentage point victory was the first of three consecutive Republican victories in the state, as Tennessee did not vote Democratic again until Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide victory in 1964. The result deviated little from long-established partisan patterns, with Chester County — where Eisenhower was the first-ever Republican victorMenendez Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004 298–303 2005 McFarland 0786422173 – the only county Eisenhower carried that neither Harding nor Hoover won. Nonetheless, whereas Harding's and Hoover's victories were based upon gains in Middle Tennessee, gains in the pro-Dixiecrat cotton counties of West Tennessee were most critical for Eisenhower: fifteen of the top twenty-four Thurmond counties were also amongst the top twenty-four in terms of Democratic loss since 1936.Strong Donald S. The Presidential Election in the South, 1952 The Journal of Politics August 1955 17 3 343–389 The University of Chicago Press 10.1017/S0022381600091064 This is also the most recent election in which Tennessee voted differently from Kentucky (coincidentally, the closest Stevenson state in this election). See also United States presidential elections in Tennessee 1952 United States Senate election in Tennessee 1952 Tennessee gubernatorial election Notes References Tennessee 1952 Category:1952 Tennessee elections