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1948 Kansas gubernatorial election

election for the governorship of the U.S. state of Kansas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ96362262 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1948 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1948. Incumbent Republican Frank Carlson defeated Democratic nominee Randolph Carpenter with 57.00% of the vote.

Primary elections

Primary elections were held on August 3, 1948.

Editorial summary

“1948 Kansas gubernatorial election” enters the record as election for the governorship of the U.S. state of Kansas. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kansas, gubernatorial and election can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kansas, gubernatorial and election.
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Why this record matters

“1948 Kansas gubernatorial election” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kansas, gubernatorial and election provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q96362262. The first chronological checks are 1948.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “1948 Kansas gubernatorial election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.