Michigan Democratic Party Campaign Button, 1952-1956
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Political party officials want voters to cast a "straight-party" ballot -- to vote for every candidate running from their party. In the 1950s, the Democratic Party encouraged Michigan voters to "Make it Emphatic Vote Straight Democratic" by casting their ballots for G. Mennan Williams for governor and Adlai Stevenson for president. Voters split the ballot anyway. Williams became governor, but the state backed Republican Dwight Eisenhower.
Political party officials want voters to cast a "straight-party" ballot -- to vote for every candidate running from their party. In the 1950s, the Democratic Party encouraged Michigan voters to "Make it Emphatic Vote Straight Democratic" by casting their ballots for G. Mennan Williams for governor and Adlai Stevenson for president. Voters split the ballot anyway. Williams became governor, but the state backed Republican Dwight Eisenhower.
Artifact
Button (Information artifact)
Date Made
1952-1956
Subject Date
1952-1956
Creators
Place of Creation
United States, New York, Tuckahoe
United States, New York, New Rochelle
Creator Notes
Manufactured by Pictorial Productions, Inc. in Tuckahoe or New Rochelle, New York.
Keywords
Buttons (Information artifacts)
Williams, G. Mennen, 1911-1988
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
2002.0.25.28
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Plastic
Metal
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Blue
Dimensions
Diameter: 2.5 in
Inscriptions
Front: MAKE IT EMPHATIC | WILLIAMS | VOTE STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC | STEVENSON
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