F. Shirley Wilcox

Offices

Treasurer of State
Statewide
In office
Feb 10, 1949 to Feb 10, 1951

Party: Democratic
Assumed: General Election
Left: Lost Reelection Bid
F. Shirley Wilcox spent 2 years in office in Indiana, all of it at the state level.

Elections

1948–Treasurer of State WON
General Election–Tuesday, November 2, 1948
51.15%
F. Shirley Wilcox*, Democratic, 830,973 votes
47.50%
H. Dale Brown, Republican, 771,724 votes
 0.86%
Omer F. Smith, Prohibition, 13,967 votes
 0.39%
C. Ray Minton, United States Progressive Party, 6,321 votes
 0.06%
Earl Cole, Socialist, 1,023 votes
 0.04%
William Henry Miller, Socialist Labor, 645 votes
Out of 1,624,653 votes casts, the margin of victory was 59,249 (3.65%)
1950–Treasurer of State LOST
General Election–Tuesday, November 7, 1950
53.16%
William Lemcke Fortune*, Republican, 839,576 votes
45.99%
F. Shirley Wilcox (i), Democratic, 726,360 votes
 0.84%
Horace N. Smith, Prohibition, 13,325 votes
Out of 1,579,261 votes casts, the margin of victory was 113,216 (7.17%)
In the 2 races for which we have results, F. Shirley Wilcox had a record of 1-1. That includes a record of 1-1 in 2 general elections.