{"id":561,"date":"2025-11-12T22:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:09","slug":"madera-drew-big-name-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/madera-drew-big-name-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera drew big name politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"561\" class=\"elementor elementor-561\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef37638 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ef37638\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ec7eb7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3ec7eb7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In 1950, national politics caught the eye of most Maderans, especially the race between Congressman Richard Nixon and Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Sheridan Downey. While the record shows that Douglas campaigned in Madera once, Nixon upstaged her by doing it twice.<\/p><p>On April 11, 1950, Nixon came to Madera to campaign from the back of a station wagon. He parked the vehicle on Yosemite Avenue, between C and D streets, and gave a rip-roaring stump speech in which he assailed both President Harry Truman\u2019s policies and his opponent\u2019s patriotism.<\/p><p>Nixon\u2019s tactics that year put him in the United States Senate, and in 1952, he found himself running for Vice President on the Republican ticket with Dwight D. Eisenhower. That\u2019s when he made his second campaign trip to Madera, but this one was just a bit more stressful.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1950, national politics caught the eye of most Maderans, especially the race between Congressman Richard Nixon and Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Sheridan Downey. While the record shows that Douglas campaigned in Madera once, Nixon upstaged her by doing it twice. On April 11, 1950, Nixon came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-government"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}