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Party Leadership Change in the House of Representatives: 1910–1976

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Vaughn Altemus
Vaughn Altemus*
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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American Political Science Review , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , June 1977 , pp. 587 - 588
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1977

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References

page 587 note 1 See Peabody, Robert L., “Party Leadership Change in the United States House of Representatives,” American Political Science Review, 61 (September 1967), 675–693 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Jones, Charles O., Cannon, Joseph G. and Smith, Howard W.: An Essay on the Limits of Leadership in the House of Representatives,” Journal of Politics, 30 (August 1968), 617–646 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hinckley, Barbara, “Congressional Leadership Selection and Support,” Journal of Politics, 32 (May 1970), 268–287 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Ripley, Randall B., Party Leaders in the House of Representatives (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1967)Google Scholar.

page 587 note 2 Peabody, , “Party Leadership Change,” p. 686 Google Scholar.

page 587 note 3 Peabody also deals almost exclusively with the post-1955 period in his recent book, Leadership in Congress (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976)Google Scholar.

page 587 note 4 Peabody, , “Party Leadership Change,” p. 693 Google Scholar.

page 587 note 5 Gillett over Mann, 1919: Snell over Tilson, 1931; Halleck over Martin, 1959; and Ford over Halleck in 1965.

page 587 note 6 The source of figures up to 1970 is Historical Statistics of the United States Colonial Times to 1970 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975)Google Scholar. After 1970 the Congressional Directory is used.

page 588 note 7 Peabody, , “Party Leadership Change,” p. 693 Google Scholar.

page 588 note 8 The Republicans suffered election disasters in 1912, '22, '30, '32, '48, '58, '64 and '74. The Democrats in 1914, '20, '38, '42, '46, and '66.