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"Clean Sweep" Campaign Button"
United States; Aluminum, tin and laminated paper, 1973; AIHA Collection: Gift of Mary Sheehan

A campaign button used in Carl Touhey's 1973 campaign for election as mayor of Albany. In 1973 Carl E. Touhey, a well educated, successful businessman ran as the Republican Party candidate in an attempt to unseat eight term Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd. Touhey was defeated by 3,552 votes, the smallest margin of votes in Corning's electoral life.


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"Clean Sweep" Campaign Button


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