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Virginia gubernatorial election, 1965

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269,526
  
212,207

47.89%
  
37.71%

Start date
  
November 2, 1965

212,207
  
75,307

37.71%
  
13.38%

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Winner
  
Mills E Godwin Jr

In the 1965 Virginia gubernatorial election, incumbent Governor Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., a Democrat, was unable to seek re-election due to term limits. A. Linwood Holton, Jr., an attorney from Roanoke, was nominated by the Republican Party to run against Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Mills E. Godwin, Jr..

George Lincoln Rockwell, an avowed White Supremacist and founder/leader of the American Nazi Party, ran as an independent candidate.

Candidates

  • Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (D)
  • A. Linwood Holton, Jr., attorney from Roanoke (R)
  • William J. Story, Jr., (C)
  • George Lincoln Rockwell, Independent

    • References

    Virginia gubernatorial election, 1965 Wikipedia
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