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FAMOUS NEWSPAPER MISPRINT - "HUGHES ELECTED"

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
FAMOUS NEWSPAPER MISPRINT -  HUGHES ELECTED
Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 8, 1916, morning edition, 20pp. This newspaper certainly ranks up there with the famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" Chicago Daily Tribune newspaper from 1948, only much, much rarer. This paper reports that Charles Evans Hughes had defeated President Woodrow Wilson in the 1916 Presidential race with the headline: "HUGHES ELECTED" in the upper right column. Hughes was defeated by Woodrow Wilson in a close election (separated by 23 electoral votes and 594,188 popular votes). The election hinged on California, where Wilson managed to win by 3,800 votes and its 13 electoral votes and thus Wilson was returned for a second term; Hughes had lost the endorsement of the California governor when he failed to show up for an appointment with him. The Public Ledger states "Charles Evans Hughes was elected President of the United States yesterday over Woodrow Wilson...Incomplete returns indicate that President Hughes will not have a Republican Congress behind him...". There is no positive news for Wilson - all for Hughes. Just a great read. Pages are somewhat brittle, as expected from a century-old newspaper, still good.

Estimate: $300 - 400.

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