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unusual facts about Moderate Republican



George Busbee

He won election to his second term in 1978 with an easy victory over moderate Republican Rodney Cook of Atlanta.

Texas Education Agency

Thomas Ratliff, a Moderate Republican and the son of former Lieutenant Governor Bill Ratliff of Mount Pleasant, in 2010 unseated the Bryan dentist Don McLeroy, a former education board chairman who was the leader of the conservative bloc.

Tryon D. Lewis

In 2009, as Lewis succeeded West, Craddick himself was deposed as Speaker by Moderate Republican Joe Straus of San Antonio.


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Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel

After the revolution of February 1848, Coquerel was elected a member of the National Assembly, where he sat as a moderate republican, subsequently becoming a member of the Legislative Assembly following the May 1849 election, won by the conservative Parti de l'Ordre.

California gubernatorial election, 1966

With Richard Nixon working tirelessly behind the scenes and Reagan trumpeting his law and order campaign message, Reagan received almost 2/3 of the primary vote over George Christopher, the moderate Republican former mayor of San Francisco, and went into the general election with a great deal of momentum.

Donald W. Riegle, Jr.

In 1966, Riegle, then 28 years old and a moderate Republican, defeated incumbent Democratic U.S. Representative John C. Mackie to be elected from Michigan's 7th congressional district to the 90th Congress.