William McLaughlin (Michigan)

William F. McLaughlin was an American politician ( Republican).

Career

McLaughlin was living in St. Clair Shores and Northville, Michigan. He resigned in 1962 in an election district in Macomb County as a candidate for election to the House of Representatives from Michigan. Both in 1964 in San Francisco as well as in 1972 in Miami Beach, he was a member of the respective delegations of Michigan at the Republican National Convention. He was vice chairman of the Republican Party of Michigan in 1965 and was elected chairman later. He held from 1969 to 1979 this office.

1976 McLaughlin criticized sharply canvassed Ronald Reagan for the votes of supporters and the conservative wing of the Democrats in the Republican primaries for the presidential election. He threw Reagan, who was then based in the Michigan President Gerald Ford challenged party internally, before to bring with this approach, the destruction of the two-party system and the Republican Party. In reality, Reagan's strategy proved ultimately as the foundation for its election victory four years later, when he did not managed to win back the White House for the Republicans with the Reagan Democrats, after Ford had lost in 1976 to Democrat Jimmy Carter.