1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi information

1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi
Stevenson 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% 80-90%	Eisenhower 50-60% 60-70%
President before election; Harry S. Truman; Democratic	Elected President ; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Republican

The 1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the United States presidential election of 1952. The Democratic Party candidate, Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, won the state of Mississippi over Dwight D. Eisenhower, the former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and General of the Army by a margin of 59,600 votes, or 20.88 percentage points. Eisenhower went on to win the election nationally, with 442 electoral votes and a commanding 10.9 percent lead over Stevenson in the popular vote.

Mississippi in this time period was a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party was virtually nonexistent as a result of disenfranchisement among poor whites and African Americans,^[2] including voter intimidation against those who refused to vote Democratic. The state Republican Party led by Perry Wilbon Howard II — who resided in Washington D.C. after 1928 — was entirely drawn from the state’s tiny black middle class and never contested non-presidential elections,^[3] serving entirely to sell federal patronage,^[4] mostly to white Democrats.^[5] The 1948 election split the National Democratic Party and segregationist Southern Democrats over the issue of civil rights for African Americans.^[6] In the 1952 election, Stevenson, a moderate on race issues, selected the segregationist Senator Sparkman as his running mate to avoid another split in the Democratic vote. However, this was not enough for some white Mississippians, who felt that the national Republican Party already offered a better prospect for their conservative social and economic goals.^[3]

^ "U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013. Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination
^ Wright-Austin, Sharon D. (2006). The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta. p. 45. ISBN 9780791468012.
^ ^a ^b Busbee, Westley F. (2014). Mississippi: A History. pp. 276–278. ISBN 9781118822722.
^ Heersink, Boris; Jenkins, Jeffery A. (2020). Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968. Cambridge University Press. pp. 329–331. ISBN 9781108850827.
^ Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks; Gates, Henry Louis, eds. (March 23, 2004). African American Lives. Oxford University Press. pp. 417–418. ISBN 9780199882861.
^ Kehl, James A. "Philadelphia, 1948: City of Crucial Conventions". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 67 (2): 313–326.

[1] "U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013. Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination

[2] Wright-Austin, Sharon D. (2006). The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta. p. 45. ISBN 9780791468012.

[Mississippi-3] Busbee, Westley F. (2014). Mississippi: A History. pp. 276–278. ISBN 9781118822722.

[Republican-4] Heersink, Boris; Jenkins, Jeffery A. (2020). Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968. Cambridge University Press. pp. 329–331. ISBN 9781108850827.

[5] Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks; Gates, Henry Louis, eds. (March 23, 2004). African American Lives. Oxford University Press. pp. 417–418. ISBN 9780199882861.

[6] Kehl, James A. "Philadelphia, 1948: City of Crucial Conventions". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 67 (2): 313–326.

1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi information

and 30 Related for: 1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi information

1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1952 United States presidential election

1996 United States presidential election in Mississippi

2020 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1948 United States presidential election in Mississippi

2024 United States presidential election in Mississippi

2008 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1992 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1956 United States presidential election in Mississippi

United States presidential elections in Mississippi

1980 United States presidential election in Mississippi

2012 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1952 United States presidential election in Florida

1952 United States presidential election in Alabama

1988 United States presidential election in Mississippi

2004 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1960 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1952 United States presidential election in Minnesota

2016 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1968 United States presidential election in Mississippi

2000 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1936 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1888 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1976 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1872 United States presidential election in Mississippi

1952 United States Senate election in Mississippi

1952 United States presidential election in Virginia

1952 United States presidential election in South Carolina