STARKVILLE—Clarke T. Reed Sr., who skillfully and purposefully changed both the retail political allegiances and the ...

As a former chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, he helped grow the party into a dominant force in the South ...

Clarke Reed, the grand old man of the Mississippi Republican Party, should be remembered for far more than just being an ...

Carter soundly defeated the Republican ticket of Gerald Ford and Bob Dole in the 1976 election. Rockefeller, who represented the liberal wing of the GOP, took himself out of consideration for ...

Clarke T. Reed—businessman, Mississippi civic leader, and a key architect of post-World War II Southern politics—died on ...

This lesson explores the presidency of Gerald Ford and features the University of Virginia Miller Center's Guian McKee, Russell Riley, Ken Hughes, Barbara Perry, and Marc Selverstone. The lesson opens ...

After the struggles of the party post-Richard Nixon and Watergate, followed by the defeat of Gerald Ford to Jimmy Carter, many questioned if the GOP could survive. However, after his narrow loss ...

During the 1976 Republican National Convention, delegates were closely divided between President Gerald Ford and former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. Reed united the Mississippi delegation behind ...

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