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'''Harold Edward Stassen''' (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was a [[Moderate Republican]] who was the youngest person elected as the [[governor]] of a U.S. state - [[Minnesota]] in 1938. He still holds that designation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libguides.mnhs.org/stassen|title=Harold E. Stassen: Boy Governor" & Presidential Hopeful: Overview|publisher=Libguide|accessdate=June 5, 2020}}</ref> [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Bill Clinton]] was elected in [[Arkansas]] in 1978, the second youngest person elected as a governor. Despite his early success in Minnesota politics, over the years the [[Moderate Republican]] Stassen became known as a perennial candidate for many offices, including [[U.S. President]], [[U.S. Senator]], and governor of [[Pennsylvania]] and [[mayor]] of [[Philadelphia]], where he moved in 1948 to become the president of the University of Pennsylvania]].
His strongest of the losing campaigns occurred in 1948, when Stassen, initially favored to win the presidential nomination, lost out to fellow Moderate Republican [[Thomas E. Dewey]], then the governor of [[New York]]. In that race, the two debated on [[radio]], the first time candidates had faced off in the media. An issue that separated them was Stassen's support for outlawing the [[Communist Party]] in the United States. Dewey took the view that regulation of the communist activities should be monitored but that the radical elements could not be simply "outlawed."
