as merely a "protest against the scandalous and unconscionable measures employed by the hierarchy of my party in undertaking to foist upon us a candidate they must know cannot possibly be elected in November." Results General election Candidates Paul Dever, incumbent Governor (Democratic) Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) Christian Herter, U.S. Representative from Boston (Republican) Florence H. Luscomb, architect and suffragette (Peace Progressive) Guy S. Williams (Prohibition) Results See also 1951–1952 Massachusetts legislature References 1952 Gubernatorial Massachusetts November 1952 events in the United States