Smyrna times., 1932-06-29
GOVERNOR BUCK
TO RUN AGAIN
States Executive Would Not
Accept Senatorial Choice
Issues Statement
PLEASING TO FRIENDS

Governor Clayton Douglas Buck
Saturday morning issued 36 word
statement to the press, announcing
that he has decided to be can
didate for denomination at the Re
publican State Convention next
September. The statement fol-
lows: TN response to the requests
of my friends throughout the State
to seek denomination as Governor,
/ have decided to be candidate
for the office at the Republican
State Convention to be held in Sep
tember." When questioned by
newspapermen concerning reports
that, if elected, he would resign to
become a candidate for the United
States Senate in 1884, the Cover
nor branded them as absolutely
false, stating he would not consid-
er the Senatorial nomination, nor
would he resign from the office.
Governor Bucks announcement
that he is a candidate for renomi-
nation came as pleasing news to
his many friends who have been
urging him for months to toss his
hat into the ring. Ever since the
1881 session of the Legislature,
there has been growing demand
for the Governor to seek renomina-
tion. His conduct Of the office SO
impressed his friends throughout
the State that many personal re-
quests had come to him to an
nounce his candidacy. Several
weeks ago the Better Government
League of Delaware submitted
petition to the Governor, signed by
leading businessmen and profess
sional men, urging him to seek re
election. Alfred /. DUPONT, in a
recent letter to Lammot DUPONT,
president Of the Better Govern
ment League, declared that every
effort should be made to induce
Governor Buck to stand for re-
election. Political circles had been
waiting anxiously for weeks for
some indication from Governor
Buck, as to whether or not he
would seek denomination. Gov
ernor Buck had maintained a silent
attitude in the matter until Satur-
day morning, when he handed the
brief announcement to newspaper
men in his Office in the Equitable
Trust Co. Governor Buck was
honored by his party less than two
weeks ago, when he was selected
as Republican National Commit
teman from Delaware, by the Del
aware delegates to the Republican
National Convention in Chicago.
Governor Buck had been filling the
vacancy in the Republican Nation
al Committee, created through the
death of former United States SEN
ator Coleman DUPONT, of this State.
The Governor is a native Della
warean, having been born at Buena
Vista, where he now lives, on
March i, 1890, son of the late
Francis N. and Constance Doug
lass) Buck. He was graduated
from Friends school in Wilmington
in 1908, with honors. In 1909 he
entered the University of Pennsyl-
vania, where he took a course in
chemical engineering. He left the
college one afternoon in 1911, and
the next day was working on the
l..D /,
ing constructed. With the excep-
tion of spending a few months in
the State Engineering Department
in New York, he has since been
with the State Highway Depart
ment at Dover. He became assist
ant engineer to Charles NJ. Upham
and, upon Mr.. Upham's retiring,
was made chief engineer of the de-
partment. His career from that
time has been successful and out
standing. Through the supervision
OF Q. Douglass Buck, the State of
Delaware is conceded to have the
best roaded territory in the world
Not only has he supervised the
building Of miles and miles of wide
concrete main highway from one
end of the State to the other, but
has been responsible for network
Of spendid roads all over the State.
During the World War, the Gov
ernor-elect was in the service at
the Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology and in aviation camps.
He is a member Of the Delta Phi
Fraternity and St. Elmo Chapter,
The Wilmington Country Club, the
Wilmington Club and the Ameri-
can Business Club, of Wilmington,
of which he is president. He is a
member of Emmanuel P. E. Church
in New Castle, where his parents
worshipped.