Claim: Sid McMath won the 1948 Arkansas gubernatorial election with 89.37% of the vote, but later lost his second reelection in 1952.
Evidence: Democratic nominee Sid McMath defeated Republican nominee Charles R. Black with 89.37% of the vote. These interests put aside their differences to work in concert to defeat McMath's bid for a third term in the 1952 election. Following his 1952 defeat, McMath returned to the practice of law and over the next half-century became one of the leading consumer trial attorneys in the United States.