Election
election
The 1948 Oregon gubernatorial special election took place on November 2, 1948, to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Oregon. A special election was needed due to the death of governor Earl Snell, who was killed in a plane crash on October 28, 1947. Republican Douglas McKay defeated Democrat Lew Wallace to fill the remainder of Snell's term.
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The 1948 Oregon gubernatorial special election took place on November 2, 1948, to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Oregon. A special election was needed due to the death of governor Earl Snell, who was killed in a plane crash on October 28, 1947. Republican Douglas McKay defeated Democrat Lew Wallace to fill the remainder of Snell's term.
Oregon held primary elections on May 21, 1948.
Incumbent governor John Hubert Hall, who took over after Snell's death until the election, lost the Republican nomination to state senator Douglas McKay.
Lew Wallace, who previously ran for governor in 1942, was nominated again, facing no opposition in the Democratic primary.
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