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Despite his moderate reputation, Ives supported the [[Taft–Hartley Act]] in 1947 and voted to override President [[Harry Truman]]'s [[veto]] of the landmark legislation, which allows states to enact [[right-to-work]] laws strongly opposed by organized labor. This cost Ives the support of organized labor.<ref name=nytimes/> Senator Ives was a delegate to the 1948 [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], which nominated his friend  Thomas Dewey, who lost his second bid to President Truman, Ives' His first wife, Elizabeth Minette Skinner (1898-1947), the mother of their son, George Ives,  died after an illness of two years. The next year in 1948, Ives wed his longtime secretary, Marion Mead Crain (1902-1996).<ref name=yearbook/>
 
Despite his moderate reputation, Ives supported the [[Taft–Hartley Act]] in 1947 and voted to override President [[Harry Truman]]'s [[veto]] of the landmark legislation, which allows states to enact [[right-to-work]] laws strongly opposed by organized labor. This cost Ives the support of organized labor.<ref name=nytimes/> Senator Ives was a delegate to the 1948 [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], which nominated his friend  Thomas Dewey, who lost his second bid to President Truman, Ives' His first wife, Elizabeth Minette Skinner (1898-1947), the mother of their son, George Ives,  died after an illness of two years. The next year in 1948, Ives wed his longtime secretary, Marion Mead Crain (1902-1996).<ref name=yearbook/>
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Ives was reelected to the Senate 1952; he defeated, 55 to 37 percent,  John Cashmore (1895-1961), the [[Brooklyn]] borough president from 1940 until his death in office.<ref name=results>{{cite web|publisher=Clerk of the [[United States House of Representatives]]|title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1952|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1952election.pdf}}</ref> Ives received the largest number of votes hitherto ever won by a candidate in New York, carrying all but three of the sixty-two counties.<ref name=nytimes/> A strong supporter of General Eisenhower, he served as a delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], at which Eisenhower defeated the more conservative U.S. Senator [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]] and with his running mate, [[Richard M. Nixon]] of [[California]] and went on to win the general election against Illinois Governor [[Adlai Stevenson]] and U.S. Senator [[John Sparkman]] of [[Alabama]].
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Ives was reelected to the Senate 1952; he defeated, 55 to 37 percent,  John Cashmore (1895-1961), the [[Brooklyn]] borough president from 1940 until his death in office.<ref name=results>{{cite web|publisher=Clerk of the [[United States House of Representatives]]|title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1952|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1952election.pdf}}</ref> Ives received the largest number of votes hitherto ever won by a candidate in New York, carrying all but three of the sixty-two counties.<ref name=nytimes/> A strong supporter of General Eisenhower, he served as a delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], at which Eisenhower defeated the more conservative U.S. Senator [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]] and with his running mate, [[Richard M. Nixon]] of [[California]] went on to win the general election against Illinois Governor [[Adlai Stevenson]] and U.S. Senator [[John Sparkman]] of [[Alabama]].
    
In 1954, Ives ran unsuccessfully in a bid to succeed Dewey as governor of New York. In one of the closest elections in state history, he lost to Democrat William Averell Harriman (1891-1986) by 11,125 votes.<ref name=nytimes/> Ives was a delegate to the 1956 Republican National Convention in [[San Francisco]], [California]]. In 1958, he co-sponsored a bill with then Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]] to correct abuses within organized labor.<ref name=nytimes/>
 
In 1954, Ives ran unsuccessfully in a bid to succeed Dewey as governor of New York. In one of the closest elections in state history, he lost to Democrat William Averell Harriman (1891-1986) by 11,125 votes.<ref name=nytimes/> Ives was a delegate to the 1956 Republican National Convention in [[San Francisco]], [California]]. In 1958, he co-sponsored a bill with then Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]] to correct abuses within organized labor.<ref name=nytimes/>
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