Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-11-16
NATIONAL ELEcnoN ROUNDUP SHOWS 51
NEGROES ELECTED TO STATE LEGISLATURES

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a Democrat.
Two other Negroes were elected
for the first time to the House of
Delegates while a third, a woman,
was reelected to the House.
Clarence Mitchell, III, 81, son
of the director Of the Washington
NAACP bureau, was elected to the
House of Delegates in his political
effort. The other newly-elected
member is Ernest Young.
Reelected to the House was Mrs.
Irma Dixon.
Mitchell, Young and Mrs. Dixon
are Democrats.
Young Mitchell's father, Clar-
ence, ST., is a former Urban
League secretary in st. Paul.
MICHIGAN
Detroit CAMP - One Negro
was reelected to the Michigan SEN
ate and six others were reelected
to the state house. Two other Ne
groes were elected to the assembly
as newcomers.
Basil Brown Of Detroit was re-
elected to the Senate.
Reelected to the assembly were
Mrs. Maxcine Young, James Brad
ley, and David S. Holmes, all of
Detroit; George Edwards, High
land Park; Hiram McNeely, Ink
ster; and Roger B. Townsend,
Flint.
Newly-elected as members of the
assembly were Arthur Cartwright
and Mrs. Daisy Elliott, both of
Detroit.
Outstanding among Negro can
didates' efforts was the election of
Otis N. Smith to the state supreme
court. He had been serving under
appointment and last week was
elected to a full term.
All are Democrats.
MISSOURI
st. Louis CAMP - Mrs. De-
Verne Galloway of st. Louis last
week became the first Negro
woman ever elected to the Miss
ouri state legislature. She is a
Democrat.
Theodore McNeal, st. Louis
Democrat, was reelected to the
state senate.
Elected to the assembly for his
first term was John Conley, st.
Louis. Also newly-elected to the
assembly was James B. Troupe,
also Of ST. Louis. Troupe has served
before but not consecutively.
Hugh White Of st. Louis was re-
elected to the assembly as was J.
Mckinley Neal Of Kansas City.
Conley, Troupe, White and Neal
are Democrats.
NEW YORK
Surviving the Republican sweep
led by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
was James (Skids) Watson, Man.
haitian Democrat, who was reflect
ed to the state senate.
Thomas Jones, Brooklyn Demo-
crat, was elected to his first term
in the general assembly.
Negro Democrats reelected to
the assembly were:
Ivan Warner, Bronx; Lloyd
Dickens, Manhattan; Mark Sout-
hall, Manhattan, and Bertram
Baker, Brooklyn.
Cleveland, Ohio (ANP) - Carl
B. Stokes, 34-year-old Cleveland
attorney and former assistant mu-
nicipal prosecutor, was elected to
the Ohio House of Representatives
and became the first Negro Demo-
crat in the history of the party
ever elected to the assembly.
Stokes ran 18th in a field of "a
candidates with IT to be elected
from Cuyahoga county, polling
221, 598 votes.
Stokes has served as state chair
man of the Ohio conference of the
NAACP and is a member of the
board. He is also a member of the
boards of the Cleveland Urban
League, Mt. Pleasant Community
Council, the Cedar YMCA and
other civic groups.
The young Democrats campaign
for election this year had been
closely watched since he had lost
by only eight votes in the last
election. His troubles in the 1860
Democratic primary received wide
attention.
Stokes, in his latest bid for a
House seat, began campaigning
Immediately and never let up. He
carried the endorsement of two
daily newspapers and the County
Democratic committee, in addition
to endorsements by the Cleveland
Call & Post, the Citizens League
and numerous accredited civic