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candidates for the United States Senate and House of Representatives, the Southern Elections Fund is the only organization supporting rural candidates, candidates who cannot command national headlines and candidates whose politics represent real people and solutions to their problems, rather than slogans and rhetoric," Bond said.
In Alabama, those receiving funds were; Lucius Black, Probate Judge, and six other candidates in Sumter County; Rev. William Branch and five others in Greene County; Eddie Ayers, Probate Judge and seven other candidates in Marengo County; Charles J. McCarthy, Probate Judge and eight others in Wilcox County; Lewis Black, Probate Judge, and eleven other candidates in Hale County; Albert Turner for Probate Judge and six other candidates in Perry County; E.D. Nixon, candidate for the House of Representatives; Robert Strickland, for House of Representatives; Thomas Reed, House of Representatives; Fred Gray, House of Representatives; O.B. Wilson, State Senate; Joe Breck Gantt, District Attorney, 22nd District, Jack Drake, Circuit Judge, 17th Judicial District.
In Arkansas, candidates receiving funds were; Sam Sparks, Little Rock, State Senate; T.E. Patterson, Little Rock, House of Representatives; J.F. Colley, St. Francis, County Judge; and Ralph Nesbitt, Lee County, Sheriff.
In South Carolina, candidates receiving funds were; James Clyburn, Charleston County, House of Representatives; Herbert Fielding, Charleston County, House of Representatives; James L. Felder, Richland County, House of Representatives; and I.S. Leevy Johnson, Richland County, House of Representatives.
In Louisiana, Acie J. Belton, E. Baton Rouge, Parish School Board.
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