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Displaying 101 - 105 of 105

	Catalog #	Name	Description
101	1989.43.765C	Political Pin, Political Button	Brown and gold with an elephant and "Landon Knox", with gold felt around it; small size. Pin is from the 1936 United States Presidential election. Alf Landon and Frank Knox (Republican) lost the election to Franklin Roosevelt and John Garner (Democratic).
102	1989.43.765P	Political Pin, Political Button	"Hoover and Curtis". This is a pin in support of the Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis campaign for the 1928 United States Presidential Election. Hoover and Curtis (Republican) ran against Al Smith and Joseph Robinson (Democratic). Charles Curtis was the first Vice President acknowledged to be of significant Native American and Non-European ancestry. They won the 1928 election in a landslide but lost the 1932 election to Franklin Roosevelt and John Garner because the public did not think that Hoover had it in him to get through the Great Depression.
103	1989.43.765Q	Political Pin, Political Button	"Hoover and Curtis". This is a pin in support of the Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis campaign for the 1928 United States Presidential Election. Hoover and Curtis (Republican) ran against Al Smith and Joseph Robinson (Democratic). Charles Curtis was the first Vice President acknowledged to be of significant Native American and Non-European ancestry. They won the 1928 election in a landslide but lost the 1932 election to Franklin Roosevelt and John Garner because the public did not think that Hoover had it in him to get through the Great Depression.
104	1991.25.3	Political Pin, Political Button	"Reagan Bush '84". Pin for the 1984 United States Presidential election. Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (republican) ran against Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro (democratic). Geraldine Ferraro was the first female to be nominated for vice president. Reagan had won the prior election and was voted to return in every state except for Minnesota, Mondale's home state.
105	1995.32.10	Political Pin, Political Button	Top 3/16" is red with white letters. Middle 9/16' is white (blue letters/red stripes). Bottom 1/4" is blue. Top section says "I'm for" in white letters. Middle section says "Nixon and Lodge" in blue letters. 2 red stripes, 3/16" long appear horizontally in mddle section. Back of button is silver with pin. This pin is in support of Richard Nixon and Henry Lodge (Republican) for the 1960 Presidential election. They ran against and lost to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic). This is the first time that Alaska and Hawaii were included in a presidential election because they had both become states in 1959. Nixon and Lodge won Alaska and Kennedy and Johnson won Hawaii.