LIFE magazine helping James Hanlon on his political campaign, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1950. Click below to view more classic photos from LIFE on the camping trail. (📷 Walter Sanders/LIFE Picture Collection) LIFEMagazine Politics 1950s LIFE
have been vying for the House, the Senate, governors’ mansions and, of course, the Oval Office.
Here, LIFE.com presents photos of American politicians on the campaign trail: famous leaders and largely forgotten pols shaking hands, kissing babies, eating everything put in front of them, traveling in planes, trains and automobiles in search of one more vote. It’s not pretty but then, while it might be highly entertaining, no one ever said that politics was an especially attractive endeavor.
Republican presidential candidate Robert Taft, a U.S. Senator from Ohio, appears dismayed as he holds a rooster during his 1952 primary campaign.President Franklin D. Roosevelt talks to a young mother while sitting in his car during a trip to the West in 1936.Vice Presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace throws a boomerang in a field in January 1940.
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