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1948 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election

election in Minnesota

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ28406023 ↗
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The 1948 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1948. Incumbent Lieutenant Governor C. Elmer Anderson of the Republican Party of Minnesota defeated Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party challenger John T. McDonough.

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“1948 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election” enters the record as election in Minnesota. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Minnesota, lieutenant and gubernatorial can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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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 Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28406023. 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 Minnesota lieutenant 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.