| Item Details | |
| Entry Number | 6463 |
| Author | FOWLER, LINDA L. and ROBERT D. MCCLURE. |
| Title | Political Ambition, Who Decides to Run for Congress. |
| Publication | New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. |
| Subject(s) | -- State and Local Politics |
| Notes | (Scholarly study of the selection process, first by the parties and then by the electorate, for the successor to Congressman Barber Conable when he decided not to run for re-election in 1984 from the NY 30th Congressional district. Fred J. Eckert, Republican, won the seat, but held it only two years, losing to Louise M. Slaughter in 1986.) |
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