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Linwood Holton
Republican Candidate For Governor of Virginia
Linwood Holton, Republican candidate for Governor, is vice-president of the Virginia Bar Association and has been vice chairman of the Republican State Central Committee since 1960. Born in Big Stone Gap in 1923, he was graduated cum laude from Washington & Lee University in 1944, receiving his B. A. in absentia while on active duty with the U. S. Navy submarine force. He received his law degree from Harvard in 1949 and has since practiced law in Roanoke. A former chairman of the Roanoke City Republican Com mittee for two terms, he ran twice for the Virginia General Assembly, polling 49 percent of the vote in 1955. A commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve, Holton is commanding officer of Surface Division 5-22 Roanoke, rated second best U. S. USNR unit in 1964. [He was State Campaign manager for H. Clyde Pearson, 1961 GOP Gubernatorial candi date, and a delegate to the I960 Republican National Con
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