DOVER — Odds and ends between headlines and deadlines …
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It was good to hear from Dick Carter after last week’s column.
This editor’s short list of observations about past Delaware elections , particularly related to lieutenant governors, spurred some memories from the longtime witness to First State politics. He is now chair of the Delaware Heritage Commission and special projects director emeritus for the state Senate’s majority caucus.
In an email, Mr. Carter wrote, “One other interesting fact: my friend Eugene Bookhammer (1918-2013), a Lewes Republican, was the only lieutenant governor in Delaware history to have served under two different governors of different parties — Republican Russ Peterson from 1969 to 1973 and Democrat Sherman Tribbitt from 1973 to 1977.”
Mr. Peterson — who was known for reforms such as the state’s cabinet style of government and the Coastal Zone Act, lost his reelection bid to Mr. Tribbitt in 1972.
Mr. Carter also pointed out the losing bids of the incumbent Democrats in the 1968 election. Gov. Charles Terry and Lt. Gov. Tribbitt were seeking reelection.