1862 Rhode Island gubernatorial election

none January 2025 December 2025 ly 1862 Rhode Island gubernatorial election United States 1861 Presidential no 1861 Rhode Island gubernatorial election 1861 1863 Rhode Island gubernatorial election 1863 April 2, 1862 x150px William Sprague IV Constitutional Union Party (United States) 11,199 100.00% 1862 Rhode Island gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 250px County resultsSprague: #D45500 >90% Governor William Sprague IV Constitutional Union Party (United States) William Sprague IV Constitutional Union Party (United States) A gubernatorial election was held in Rhode Island on April 2, 1862. The incumbent Constitutional Union governor William Sprague IV was re-elected without opposition.Dubin 2014 2 Sprague won the 1860 election leading a coalition of Conservative Republicans, former Whigs, and Democrats that formed to oppose the Radical Republican gubernatorial candidate, Seth Padelford.Smith 2006 90 Smith 2017 140–41 Following the election, his supporters coalesced in the Constitutional Union Party.Smith 2017 184 So great was Sprague's popularity that the Republican Party did not attempt to contest the election.Smith 2006 90 General election 1862 Rhode Island gubernatorial electionDubin 2014 2 Constitutional Union Party (United States) William Sprague IV (incumbent) 11,199 100.00 11,199 100.00 Constitutional Union Party (United States) Notes Bibliography Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861–1911: The Official Results by State and County 2014 McFarland and Company Jefferson, NC 978-0-7864-5646-8 https://www.google.com/books/edition/United_States_Gubernatorial_Elections_18/WYJAIOabIPgC Smith Adam I. P. No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North 2006 Oxford University Press New York 978-0-19-534596-4 https://books.google.com/books?id=M8BL9i0Gn2sC Smith Adam I. P. The Stormy Present: Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865 2017 University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill 978-1-4696-3389-3 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Stormy_Present/SrY4DwAAQBAJ Category:1862 Rhode Island elections Category:Rhode Island gubernatorial elections Category:1862 United States gubernatorial elections Category:April 1862 in the United States