a possible Presidential candidate. It never happened. He was eventually elected to public office

as Governor of Pennsylvania in 1922, largely through the support of rural counties and the new

women's vote. During his 1923-1927 administration, his major goals were the regulation of

electric power companies and the enforcement of Prohibition. In a crusade for "clean politics,"

he reorganized state government, did away with many longstanding political practices, eliminated

the state's $30,000,000 deficit, settled the anthracite coal strike of 1923 and was known for

Because Pennsylvania governors were then prohibited from successive terms, Pinchot ran again for

the Senate and lost. But in 1931, he began his second term as Pennsylvania's governor during

the depression years. He advocated Federal economic relief for states and donated a quarter of

his own gross salary for one year. He successfully pressed for large reductions in utility

rates and built twenty thousand miles of paved rural roads to "get the farmer out of the mud".

When Pinchot left office in 1935, he was seventy ye

that he "greatly enjoyed rubbing it into the gangsters in the Legislature."

said, the state was run by big money, and the "people got little more than the crumbs that

nation's forests continued to shrink through fire, erosion and massive neglect. Collaborating

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