To the surprise of all, Warren allows the Race to destroy Indianapolis, and then commits suicide, with Vice President Harold Stassen taking over.
The Crusade began a second American campaign, led by Harold Stassen, on Labor Day (3 September) 1951.
He was elected mayor of Warren in 1936 and was re-elected twice, resigning when he was appointed a district court judge in 1941 by Governor Harold Stassen.
Unlike Harold Stassen, the former Minnesota governor whose repeated runs for the American presidency earned him renown of a similar nature, Racuyal, a mechanic by profession, was never a credible political figure at any point in his life.
Harold Stassen (1907–2001), American politician from Minnesota; governor of Minnesota 1939–43; perennial candidate for U.S. president
Ted was a delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention, where his friend Harold Stassen was the hands-down favorite to receive that year's Republican nomination for president.
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His main opponent was the well known Harold Stassen, the liberal and somewhat eccentric former governor of Minnesota who had retired from the presidency of the University of Pennsylvania.
During the Truman and later McCarthy eras, Fontaine supported the presidential candidacy of socially liberal Republican governor Harold Stassen, who served as President of Penn from 1948 to 1953.