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1948 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ6784416 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1948 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1948. Democrat Paul A. Dever defeated Republican incumbent Robert F. Bradford, Socialist Labor candidate Horace Hillis, and Prohibition candidate Mark R. Shaw.

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The public source identifies “1948 Massachusetts gubernatorial election” as election. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Massachusetts, gubernatorial and election.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Massachusetts, gubernatorial and election providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6784416. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “1948 Massachusetts 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.