1956 United States presidential election in Tennessee

none June 2025 September 2023 1956 United States presidential election 1956 United States presidential election in Tennessee Tennessee presidential no 1952 United States presidential election in Tennessee 1952 1960 United States presidential election in Tennessee 1960 November 6, 1956https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1956 United States Presidential election of 1956 — Encyclopædia Britannica July 5, 2017 x160px Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop.jpg Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party (United States) PennsylvaniaAlthough he was born in Texas and grew up in Kansas before his military career, at the time of the 1952 election Eisenhower was president of Columbia University and was, officially, a resident of New York. During his first term as president, he moved his private residence to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and officially changed his residency to Pennsylvania.http://www.uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/INFORMATION/presidents.php The Presidents September 27, 2017 David Leip Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania Richard Nixon 11 462,288 49.21% Adlai Stevenson close-up.jpg Adlai Stevenson Democratic Party (United States) Illinois Estes Kefauver 0 456,507 48.60% 350px County results 350px Congressional district results 350px Eisenhower #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% Stevenson #B9D7FF 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% Andrews #ffb380 40–50% President Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party (United States) Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party (United States) The 1956 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose elevenhttps://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1953_1957.html#1956 1956 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1957-61) July 5, 2017 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Incumbent Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower narrowly carried the state over Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, becoming the first Republican nominee ever to carry the state more than once. 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 https://archive.org/details/sim_geographical-review_1932-10_22_4/page/666 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 would almost always gain thirty to forty percent of the statewide vote from mountain and Highland Rim support. Between 1896 and 1948, the Republicans would win statewide contests three times but only in the second amiss the national anti-Wilson tide of 1920Reichard 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 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 After the beginning of the Great Depression, however, for the next third of a century the Republicans would rarely contest 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 State GOP leader B. Carroll Reece is widely believed to have had agreements with E. H. Crump and later Frank G. Clement and Buford Ellington that Republicans would not contest offices statewide or outside their traditional pro-Union areas.Vile John R. Byrnes Mark Eaton Tennessee government and politics: democracy in the volunteer state 1998 2–3 Vanderbilt University Press 0826513093 The Crump machine would abruptly fall in 1948 after its leader 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 Tennessee's other Senate seat in 1948. 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 would substantially modify its poll tax and entirely abolish 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 Only eight years later, Kefauver would be on the ballot in Tennessee as the Democrats' candidate for vice president in this election. Polls SourceRankingAs ofChattanooga Daily TimesLikely D flip September 19, 1956Spokane ChronicleEdson Arthur Eisenhower Popularity in Tennessee Seems to Be Waning Spokane Chronicle October 16, 1956 18Tossup October 16, 1956 Results 1956 United States presidential election in Tennesseehttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=47&year=1956 1956 Presidential General Election Results — Tennessee July 5, 2017http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1956 The American Presidency Project — Election of 1956 July 5, 2017 Dwight D. Eisenhower (inc.) Republican Party (United States) 462,288 49.21% Adlai Stevenson Democratic Party (United States) 456,507 48.60% T. Coleman Andrews Dixiecrat 19,820 2.11% Enoch Holtwick Prohibition Party (United States) 789 0.08% 939,404 100% Results by county CountyOur Campaigns https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2646 TN US President, November 06, 1956 Dwight D. EisenhowerRepublican Adlai StevensonDemocratic T. Coleman AndrewsStates’ Rights Enoch HoltwickProhibition Margin Total votescast # % # % # % # % # % Anderson 11,071 52.42% 9,368 44.35% 682 3.23% 0 0.00% 1,703 8.07% 21,121 Bedford 2,258 33.08% 4,517 66.18% 50 0.73% 0 0.00% -2,259 -33.10% 6,825 Benton 1,279 36.22% 2,231 63.18% 21 0.59% 0 0.00% -952 -26.96% 3,531 Bledsoe 1,429 56.57% 1,079 42.72% 18 0.71% 0 0.00% 350 13.85% 2,526 Blount 12,667 70.90% 5,076 28.41% 113 0.63% 11 0.06% 7,591 42.49% 17,867 Bradley 6,247 65.00% 3,225 33.56% 139 1.45% 0 0.00% 3,022 31.44% 9,611 Campbell 5,065 64.78% 2,628 33.61% 126 1.61% 0 0.00% 2,437 31.17% 7,819 Cannon 919 37.13% 1,547 62.51% 9 0.36% 0 0.00% -628 -25.38% 2,475 Carroll 4,235 55.80% 3,232 42.58% 123 1.62% 0 0.00% 1,003 13.22% 7,590 Carter 11,218 78.80% 2,933 20.60% 85 0.60% 0 0.00% 8,285 58.20% 14,236 Cheatham 498 17.72% 2,297 81.71% 11 0.39% 5 0.18% -1,799 -63.99% 2,811 Chester 1,460 48.85% 1,495 50.02% 32 1.07% 2 0.07% -35 -1.17% 2,989 Claiborne 3,377 62.21% 1,973 36.35% 34 0.63% 44 0.81% 1,404 25.86% 5,428 Clay 902 48.31% 948 50.78% 17 0.91% 0 0.00% -46 -2.47% 1,867 Cocke 5,526 82.29% 1,121 16.69% 39 0.58% 29 0.43% 4,405 65.60% 6,715 Coffee 2,389 32.42% 4,930 66.90% 50 0.68% 0 0.00% -2,541 -34.48% 7,369 Crockett 1,026 33.02% 1,964 63.21% 105 3.38% 12 0.39% -938 -30.19% 3,107 Cumberland 3,200 62.00% 1,925 37.30% 36 0.70% 0 0.00% 1,275 24.70% 5,161 Davidson 37,077 39.08% 56,822 59.89% 975 1.03% 0 0.00% -19,745 -20.81% 94,874 Decatur 1,512 48.76% 1,554 50.11% 35 1.13% 0 0.00% -42 -1.35% 3,101 DeKalb 1,690 45.76% 1,982 53.67% 21 0.57% 0 0.00% -292 -7.91% 3,693 Dickson 1,247 24.38% 3,799 74.29% 68 1.33% 0 0.00% -2,552 -49.91% 5,114 Dyer 2,682 36.21% 4,524 61.08% 201 2.71% 0 0.00% -1,842 -24.87% 7,407 Fayette 358 18.19% 639 32.47% 971 49.34% 0 0.00% -332In this county where Andrews came first with Stevenson second and Eisenhower third, margin given is Stevenson vote minus Andrews vote and percentage margin Stevenson percentage minus Andrews percentage. -16.87% 1,968 Fentress 2,233 69.52% 934 29.08% 30 0.93% 15 0.47% 1,299 40.44% 3,212 Franklin 1,727 26.19% 4,791 72.65% 77 1.17% 0 0.00% -3,064 -46.46% 6,595 Gibson 3,481 29.72% 7,884 67.31% 348 2.97% 0 0.00% -4,403 -37.59% 11,713 Giles 1,401 22.65% 4,750 76.79% 35 0.57% 0 0.00% -3,349 -54.14% 6,186 Grainger 2,497 72.40% 913 26.47% 39 1.13% 0 0.00% 1,584 45.93% 3,449 Greene 7,396 64.87% 3,949 34.63% 57 0.50% 0 0.00% 3,447 30.24% 11,402 Grundy 918 30.36% 2,076 68.65% 23 0.76% 7 0.23% -1,158 -38.29% 3,024 Hamblen 5,608 67.77% 2,592 31.32% 75 0.91% 0 0.00% 3,016 36.45% 8,275 Hamilton 34,429 53.11% 28,287 43.63% 2,114 3.26% 0 0.00% 6,142 9.48% 64,830 Hancock 1,939 83.29% 350 15.03% 26 1.12% 13 0.56% 1,589 68.26% 2,328 Hardeman 818 24.40% 1,754 52.31% 781 23.29% 0 0.00% -936 -27.91% 3,353 Hardin 2,898 61.92% 1,734 37.05% 48 1.03% 0 0.00% 1,164 24.87% 4,680 Hawkins 6,916 68.04% 3,180 31.29% 37 0.36% 31 0.30% 3,736 36.75% 10,164 Haywood 516 17.04% 2,217 73.22% 295 9.74% 0 0.00% -1,701 -56.18% 3,028 Henderson 3,294 66.91% 1,613 32.76% 16 0.33% 0 0.00% 1,681 34.15% 4,923 Henry 2,337 28.97% 5,625 69.72% 106 1.31% 0 0.00% -3,288 -40.75% 8,068 Hickman 1,040 29.75% 2,439 69.77% 11 0.31% 6 0.17% -1,399 -40.02% 3,496 Houston 340 24.55% 1,033 74.58% 8 0.58% 4 0.29% -693 -50.03% 1,385 Humphreys 713 19.99% 2,841 79.67% 12 0.34% 0 0.00% -2,128 -59.68% 3,566 Jackson 881 33.13% 1,743 65.55% 35 1.32% 0 0.00% -862 -32.42% 2,659 Jefferson 4,870 77.63% 1,338 21.33% 65 1.04% 0 0.00% 3,532 56.30% 6,273 Johnson 3,690 87.44% 503 11.92% 27 0.64% 0 0.00% 3,187 75.52% 4,220 Knox 46,167 60.09% 29,768 38.74% 800 1.04% 96 0.12% 16,399 21.35% 76,831 Lake 512 22.80% 1,673 74.49% 61 2.72% 0 0.00% -1,161 -51.69% 2,246 Lauderdale 1,049 18.94% 4,383 79.12% 108 1.95% 0 0.00% -3,334 -60.18% 5,540 Lawrence 4,588 51.67% 4,227 47.60% 44 0.50% 21 0.24% 361 4.07% 8,880 Lewis 522 28.16% 1,321 71.25% 11 0.59% 0 0.00% -799 -43.09% 1,854 Lincoln 1,207 21.21% 4,434 77.90% 51 0.90% 0 0.00% -3,227 -56.69% 5,692 Loudon 4,583 60.91% 2,844 37.80% 75 1.00% 22 0.29% 1,739 23.11% 7,524 Macon 2,207 66.96% 1,069 32.43% 20 0.61% 0 0.00% 1,138 34.53% 3,296 Madison 6,642 41.42% 8,540 53.25% 810 5.05% 45 0.28% -1,898 -11.83% 16,037 Marion 2,925 50.45% 2,781 47.96% 92 1.59% 0 0.00% 144 2.49% 5,798 Marshall 1,527 26.58% 4,100 71.37% 94 1.64% 24 0.42% -2,573 -44.79% 5,745 Maury 2,853 29.39% 6,662 68.64% 191 1.97% 0 0.00% -3,809 -39.25% 9,706 McMinn 6,075 59.83% 3,950 38.90% 93 0.92% 35 0.34% 2,125 20.93% 10,153 McNairy 3,349 57.37% 2,403 41.16% 86 1.47% 0 0.00% 946 16.21% 5,838 Meigs 847 51.93% 759 46.54% 21 1.29% 4 0.25% 88 5.39% 1,631 Monroe 4,998 58.28% 3,511 40.94% 55 0.64% 12 0.14% 1,487 17.34% 8,576 Montgomery 2,778 25.41% 8,034 73.48% 122 1.12% 0 0.00% -5,256 -48.07% 10,934 Moore 270 23.14% 893 76.52% 4 0.34% 0 0.00% -623 -53.38% 1,167 Morgan 2,402 62.83% 1,379 36.07% 42 1.10% 0 0.00% 1,023 26.76% 3,823 Obion 2,349 30.76% 5,185 67.89% 103 1.35% 0 0.00% -2,836 -37.13% 7,637 Overton 1,508 38.44% 2,385 60.80% 15 0.38% 15 0.38% -877 -22.36% 3,923 Perry 694 39.43% 1,052 59.77% 14 0.80% 0 0.00% -358 -20.34% 1,760 Pickett 985 63.30% 560 35.99% 11 0.71% 0 0.00% 425 27.31% 1,556 Polk 2,136 58.22% 1,533 41.78% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 603 16.44% 3,669 Putnam 3,492 43.63% 4,481 55.98% 31 0.39% 0 0.00% -989 -12.35% 8,004 Rhea 2,516 55.70% 1,930 42.73% 71 1.57% 0 0.00% 586 12.97% 4,517 Roane 6,147 56.82% 4,531 41.88% 131 1.21% 9 0.08% 1,616 14.94% 10,818 Robertson 1,517 23.25% 4,961 76.02% 34 0.52% 14 0.21% -3,444 -52.77% 6,526 Rutherford 2,713 29.15% 6,494 69.78% 99 1.06% 0 0.00% -3,781 -40.63% 9,306 Scott 3,282 79.10% 842 20.29% 25 0.60% 0 0.00% 2,440 58.81% 4,149 Sequatchie 683 43.89% 859 55.21% 14 0.90% 0 0.00% -176 -11.32% 1,556 Sevier 6,950 86.46% 1,043 12.98% 40 0.50% 5 0.06% 5,907 73.48% 8,038 Shelby 65,690 48.65% 62,051 45.96% 7,284 5.39% 0 0.00% 3,639 2.69% 135,025 Smith 1,267 29.96% 2,949 69.73% 8 0.19% 5 0.12% -1,682 -39.77% 4,229 Stewart 560 20.77% 2,120 78.64% 16 0.59% 0 0.00% -1,560 -57.87% 2,696 Sullivan 18,903 56.42% 14,106 42.10% 206 0.61% 291 0.87% 4,797 14.32% 33,506 Sumner 2,123 22.28% 7,368 77.34% 36 0.38% 0 0.00% -5,245 -55.06% 9,527 Tipton 983 16.26% 4,828 79.87% 234 3.87% 0 0.00% -3,845 -63.61% 6,045 Trousdale 209 16.76% 1,032 82.76% 6 0.48% 0 0.00% -823 -66.00% 1,247 Unicoi 3,978 77.71% 1,111 21.70% 30 0.59% 0 0.00% 2,867 56.01% 5,119 Union 2,154 79.69% 535 19.79% 14 0.52% 0 0.00% 1,619 59.90% 2,703 Van Buren 381 38.45% 602 60.75% 8 0.81% 0 0.00% -221 -22.30% 991 Warren 1,954 32.58% 4,014 66.92% 30 0.50% 0 0.00% -2,060 -34.34% 5,998 Washington 13,471 71.23% 5,314 28.10% 127 0.67% 0 0.00% 8,157 43.13% 18,912 Wayne 2,557 70.67% 1,045 28.88% 16 0.44% 0 0.00% 1,512 41.79% 3,618 Weakley 2,720 36.22% 4,717 62.81% 61 0.81% 12 0.16% -1,997 -26.59% 7,510 White 1,346 35.81% 2,378 63.26% 35 0.93% 0 0.00% -1,032 -27.45% 3,759 Williamson 1,979 31.86% 4,174 67.20% 58 0.93% 0 0.00% -2,195 -35.34% 6,211 Wilson 2,266 30.04% 5,221 69.21% 57 0.76% 0 0.00% -2,955 -39.17% 7,544Totals462,28849.21%456,50748.60%19,8202.11%7890.08%5,7810.61%939,404 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Marion Shelby Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Chester Counties that flipped from Democratic to Unpledged Fayette Analysis In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower, aided by acquisition of 1948 Dixiecrat votes in West Tennessee cotton counties,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 would carry the state for the Republicans by an 0.28 percent margin. Unlike in 1952, neither Eisenhower nor Stevenson visited the state.Bartlett Charles No Tennessee Visit Planned by Eisenhower, Stevenson Chattanooga Daily Times September 19, 1956 1 For the 1956 presidential election, Senator Kefauver would seek the presidential nomination but was ultimately chosen by second-time Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson II as his running mate. Despite some campaigners writing the state off for the GOP,Dewey Sees Ike Gaining in State The Knoxville Journal October 30, 1956 10 Tennessee was won by Eisenhower with 49.21 percent of the popular vote, against Stevenson's 48.60 percent. This was a slight increase upon Eisenhower’s 1952 margin, due entirely to large gains from 1952 amongst the substantial black electorate of Memphis. May 2025 Notes References Tennessee 1956 Category:1956 Tennessee elections