Preston Parks
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title:
Preston Parks
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Preston Parks was a faithless elector during the 1948 United States presidential election. A member of the Tennessee Democratic Party, Parks was chosen by his party as an elector for Democratic nominees—Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley. However, he actively campaigned for the Dixiecrats, a splinter group of segregationist Southern Democrats, who ran their own ticket, opposing Truman's civil rights policy. This made Parks the only elector pledged to one party who had campaigned for another ti
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American faithless elector
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Parks
date created:
2008-05-16T22:01:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T20:08:26Z
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