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1950 United States Senate election in Alabama

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ96362330 ↗
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The 1950 United States Senate election in Alabama was held on Tuesday, November 7, to elect one United States Senator Democratic candidate incumbent Senator J. Lister Hill was re-elected for a third term in office, defeating retired United States Navy Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin, who ran as an independent candidate.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1950 United States Senate election in Alabama” is u.S. election. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through United, States and Senate, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1950—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, United, States and Senate is the immediate research focus.
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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 Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q96362330. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1950.

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This entry incorporates text from “1950 United States Senate election in Alabama” 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.