The spontaneous reaction of the voters was to give Estes Kefauver the victory, a message pointed toward Hubert Humphrey.' See also: ' Primary History '56 Free-for-All Contest Had it All,' by Jim Parsons, Star Tribune, Jan. Minnesota Politics and Government, a 1999 textbook by Daniel Elazar, Virgina Gray and Wyman Spano, explained: 'In the 1956 presidential primary the leaders of the DFL tried to deliver the state for Adlai Stevenson by virtually dictating to the rank-and-file DFLers that they vote for him in the name of party unity. Winners: Democrat, Estes Kefauver Republican, Dwight Eisenhower The primary was held on March 20 ( election results). Eisenhower, launched just a few days before the state primary, had resulted in what came to be called the 'Minnesota miracle.' With almost none of the advance publicity Stassen had enjoyed, and without the approval of the national Eisenhower organization, the campaign was phenomenally successful 108,692 voters took the trouble to write in Eisenhower's name on the ballot, while Stassen, whose name was printed thereon, received only 20,000 more votes, 129,076.' 1956 'Stassen had led in the Minnesota Republican presidential primary, and most of the state's convention delegates were officially pledged to him. But a write-in campaign for Dwight D. Theodore Mitau wrote about the primary in his 1970 version of the textbook Politics in Minnesota. Winners: DFL, Hubert Humphrey Republican, Harold Stassen The primary was held on March 18 ( election results). The 1917 Legislature repealed the presidential primary freak, and few tears were shed.' 1917Ī presidential primary was established by Chapter 433, approved April 14. In 1947, former Morning Star Tribune reporter Charles Cheney recalled the primary in 'The Story of Minnesota Politics: Highlights of Half a Century of Political Reporting.' 'Minnesota tried the presidential primary once, in 1916, and that was enough. Two days before the election, the Duluth News Tribune wrote about the upcoming contest, including 'The crazy quilt presidential primary has befuddled everybody from the rummy to the justices of the Supreme Court.' Winners: Democrat, Woodrow Wilson Prohibition, William Sulzer Republican, Albert B. The primary was held on March 14 ( election results). Governor Eberhart promoted the presidential primary in his inaugural speech in 1913, and the Legislature passed a law that year, Chapter 449. The Minnesota Legislature has passed a presidential preference primary law four times three were repealed. Four presidential preference primaries have been held: 1916, 1952, 1956, 1992, and soon a fifth will be held: 2020.

Hubert Humphrey by Carl Solberg