1888 United States gubernatorial elections

none January 2025 1888 United States gubernatorial elections United States 1877 legislative no 1887 United States gubernatorial elections 1887 1889 United States gubernatorial elections 1889 26 state governorships November 6, 1888Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont held early elections. Democratic Party (United States) 22 governorships 22 19 3 Republican Party (United States) 16 governorships 16 19 3 1888 United States gubernatorial elections.svg #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1888, in 26 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 6, 1888 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections). In New Hampshire, the newly elected Governor's term began in the June following the election for the last time. Following an 1889 amendment to the State Constitution, the Governor's term would begin in the January following the election, beginning in 1890. Results State Incumbent Party Status Opposing candidates Alabama(held, 6 August 1888) Thomas Seay Democratic Re-elected, 77.60% W. T. Ewing (Republican) 22.24%J. C. Orr (Prohibition) 0.15%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262833 AL Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Journal of the Senate of the State of Alabama, Session of 1888-89, held in the City of Montgomery, commencing Tuesday, Nov. 13, 1888 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.aa0001607654&view=1up&seq=50&skin=2021 Montgomery, Ala. The Brown Printing Co., Public Printers and Binders 42–44 1889 Arkansas(held, 3 September 1888) Simon Pollard Hughes Jr. Democratic Lost re-nomination, Convention https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022960/1888-06-02/ed-1/seq-1/ The Forrest City times Forrest City, Ark. June 2, 1888 1 11 September 2021 State Convention https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022960/1888-06-09/ed-1/seq-1/ The Forrest City times Forrest City, Ark. June 9, 1888 1 11 September 2021 Democratic victory James Philip Eagle (Democratic) 54.09%Charles M. Norwood (Union Labor) 45.91%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265294 AR Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Colorado Alva Adams Democratic September 2021 Job Adams Cooper (Republican) 53.87%Thomas M. Patterson (Democratic) 42.67%William C. Stover (Prohibition) 2.28%Gilbert De La Matyr (Prohibition) 1.18%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264788 CO Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021Ferril Will C. 1911 Sketches of Colorado in four volumes. Being an Analytical Summary and Biographical History of the State of Colorado. I https://archive.org/details/sketchesofcolora00ferrrich/page/44/mode/2up The Western Press Bureau Company Denver, Colorado 45 House Journal of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado. Seventh Session. Convened at the City of Denver, Wednesday, January 2, 1889. https://lawcollections.colorado.edu/colorado-house-and-senate-journals/islandora/object/journals%3A109623#page/78/mode/2up Denver, Colorado The Collier & Cleaveland Lith. Co., State Printers 80–81 1889 Connecticut Phineas C. Lounsbury Republican Retired, Republican victory Morgan Bulkeley (Republican) 47.94%Luzon B. Morris (Democratic) 48.86%Hiram Camp (Prohibition) 3.01%F. A. Andrews (Labor) 0.17%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266582 CT Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 1890 Register and Manual of the State of Connecticut, 1890 https://archive.org/details/registermanualof1890unse/page/332/mode/1up Hartford The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Printers 332 (Legislative election)Since no candidate received 50% of the vote, the state legislature decided the election. Bulkeley was elected.(held, 10 January 1889) Morgan Bulkeley, 159 votes Luzon B. Morris, 95 votes Bulkeley is Governor https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015483/1889-01-11/ed-1/seq-2/ Morning journal and courier New Haven, Conn. January 11, 1889 2 11 September 2021 Florida Edward A. Perry Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory Francis P. Fleming (Democratic) 60.32%V. J. Shipman (Republican) 39.68%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=261791 FL Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021McGovern Bernie 2007 Florida Almanac 2007-2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=NclDpB3Fn5AC&pg=PA478 Gretna, Louisiana Pelican Publishing Company 478 978-1-58980-428-9 Florida's Vote https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015289/1888-11-27/ed-1/seq-4/ The weekly Floridian Tallahassee, Fla. November 27, 1888 4 11 September 2021 Florida's Vote https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015289/1888-12-04/ed-1/seq-2/ The weekly Floridian Tallahassee, Fla. December 4, 1888 2 11 September 2021 Georgia(held, 3 October 1888) John Brown Gordon Democratic Re-elected, 100.00%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264449 GA Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia at the Session of the General Assembly, at Atlanta, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 1888. https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi/ggpd?userid=public;dbs=ggpd;ini=ggpd.ini;action=retrieve;format=.;grid=;rset=001;recno=185 Atlanta, Ga. W. J. Campbell, State Printer 14–15 1888 Illinois Richard J. Oglesby Republican Retired, Republican victory Joseph W. Fifer (Republican) 50.50%John M. Palmer (Democratic) 46.03%David H. Harts (Prohibition) 2.59%Willis W. Jones (Union Labor) 0.88%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263298 IL Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Journal of the Senate of the Thirty-Sixth General Assembly of the State of Illinois Senate Journal Illinois https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2999497&view=1up&seq=45&skin=2021 Springfield, Ill. Springfield Printing Co., State Printers 33 1889 Compiled and Printed by the Secretary of State 1889 Official vote of the State of Illinois cast at the General Election held November 6, 1888 https://archive.org/details/stateofillinoiso1888illi/mode/2up Springfield, Ill. H. W. Rokker, State Printer and Binder 5–6 Indiana Isaac P. Gray Democratic Term-limited, Republican victory Alvin Peterson Hovey (Republican) 49.03%Courtland C. Matson (Democratic) 48.62%Jasper Hughes (Prohibition) 1.85%John B. Milroy (Union Labor) 0.50%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263318 IN Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Journal of the Indiana State Senate, during the Fifty-Sixth Session of the General Assembly, commencing Thursday, January 10, 1889. Regular Session Issues for -1971 Have Title:journal of the Indiana State Senate of the State of Indiana Journal of the Indiana State Senate during the ... Session of the General Assembly (1858) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112109514023&view=1up&seq=69&skin=2021 Indianapolis Wm. B. Burford, Contractor for State Printing and Binding 65 1889 Kansas John A. Martin Republican Retired,https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/john-alexander-martin/17631 Martin, John Alexander Pierron G. Joseph 2012 Kansapedia Kansas Historical Society 11 September 2021 Republican victory Lyman U. Humphrey (Republican) 54.70%John Martin (Democratic) 32.51%Peter Percival Elder (Union Labor) 10.84%Jeremiah D. Botkin (Prohibition) 1.95%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265546 KS Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021Socolofsky Homer E. 1990 Kansas Governors Lyman Underwood Humphrey https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1p2gmb4.27 Lawrence, Kansas University Press of Kansas 116–118 10.2307/j.ctv1p2gmb4.27 j.ctv1p2gmb4.27 9780700604210 Connelley William E. 1918 A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans V https://archive.org/details/standardhistoryo05conn/page/2266/mode/2up Chicago Lewis Publishing Company 2266 November 24, 1888 The Topeka State Journal https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/64451488/ The Vote On Governor Topeka, Kansas 4 11 September 2021 Louisiana(held, 17 April 1888) Samuel D. McEnery Democratic Lost renomination, The state convention https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064537/1888-01-21/ed-1/seq-5/ St. Landry democrat Opelousas, La. January 21, 1888 5 11 September 2021 Victory! https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064454/1888-01-21/ed-1/seq-1/ The weekly messenger St. Martinville, La. January 21, 1888 1 11 September 2021 Democrat victory Francis T. Nicholls (Democratic) 72.73%Henry C. Warmoth (Republican) 27.27%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263332 LA Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021Calhoun Milburn 2008 Louisiana Almanac 2008-2009 https://books.google.com/books?id=9OMCy5CUprgC&pg=PA510 Gretna, Louisiana Pelican Publishing Company 510 978-1-58980-542-2 Official Journal of the Proceedings of House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana at the First Regular Session of the Third General Assembly, begun and held in the City of Baton Rouge, May 14th, 1888 Journal of the House of Representatives https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112111920713&view=1up&seq=44&skin=2021 Baton Rouge Leon Jastremski, State Printer 38 1888 This Great State https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85034235/1888-05-24/ed-1/seq-2/ The Bossier banner Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La. May 24, 1888 2 11 September 2021 Maine(held, 10 September 1888) Sebastian Streeter Marble (acting) Republican Lost re-nomination, Burleigh https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014248/1888-06-13/ed-1/seq-1/ Daily Kennebec journal Augusta, Me. June 13, 1888 1 11 September 2021 Republican victory Edwin C. Burleigh (Republican) 52.12%William LeBaron Putnam (Democratic) 42.19%Volney B. Cushing (Prohibition) 2.14%William H. Simmons (Union Labor) 1.05%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266625 ME Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021Compiled by Grenville M. Donham 1900 Maine Register, State Year-Book and Legislative Manual 31 https://books.google.com/books?id=swxFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA123 Portland, Maine 123 Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Maine. 1889 House Journal https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112100542809&view=1up&seq=25&skin=2021 Augusta Burleigh & Flynt, Printers to the State 17 1889 Massachusetts Oliver Ames Republican Re-elected, 52.71% William E. Russell (Democratic) 44.53%William H. Earle (Prohibition) 2.73%Scattering 0.03%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266531 MA Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021Coolidge Henry D. McLaughlin Edward A. 1889 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Manual for the Use of the General Court, &c., &c. https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1889mass/page/302/mode/2up Boston Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers 302 Michigan Cyrus G. Luce Republican Re-elected, 49.20% Wellington R. Burt (Democratic)Burt ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Greenback Party. 45.59%Amherst B. Cheney (Prohibition) 4.57%William Mills (Union Labor) 0.92%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=160945 MI Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021Carl Christopher J. 2012 Michigan Manual 2011-2012 Summary of Vote for Governor, 1835-2010 http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(k44qjbpfblenqbndmowkjj4b))/documents/2011-2012/michiganmanual/2011-MM-P0578-p0582.pdf Lansing, MI The Legislative Service Bureau 579 978-1-878210-06-7 https://web.archive.org/web/20200428110038/http://legislature.mi.gov/documents/publications/manual/2011-2012/2011-MM-P0578-p0582.pdf dead 28 April 2020 Minnesota Andrew Ryan McGill Republican Lost re-nomination, Minnesota Republicans https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045604/1888-09-07/ed-1/seq-1/ The Seattle post-intelligencer Seattle, Wash. September 7, 1888 1 11 September 2021 Republican State Convention https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059959/1888-09-08/ed-1/seq-4/ The Irish standard Minneapolis, Minn. September 8, 1888 4 11 September 2021 Republican victory William Rush Merriam (Republican) 51.28%Eugene McLanahan Wilson (Democratic) 42.08%Hugh G. Harrison (Prohibition) 6.50%J. H. Paul (Labor) 0.15%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=62068 MN Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Minnesota Legislative Manual. Compiled for the Legislature of 2017-2018. https://www.sos.state.mn.us/media/3002/mn-votes_2017.pdf Minnesota Elections Saint Paul, Minnesota Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State 497 2017 Missouri Albert P. Morehouse (acting) Democratic Lost renomination, Missouri Democracy https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024283/1888-08-30/ed-1/seq-2/ Iron County register Ironton, Iron County, Mo. August 30, 1888 2 11 September 2021 Democratic victory David R. Francis (Democratic) 49.36%Elbert E. Kimball (Republican) 46.81%Ahira Manning (Union Labor) 2.98%Frank M. Lowe (Prohibition) 0.85%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263372 MO Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021Compiled and Published by Alexander A. Lesueur, Secretary of State 1889 Official Manual of the State of Missouri for the years 1889-90 https://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/bluebook/id/1708/rec/7 Jefferson City, Mo. Tribune Printing Company, State Printers and Binders 11 Nebraska John Milton Thayer Republican Re-elected, 51.26% John A. McShane (Democratic) 42.11%George Bigelow (Prohibition) 4.69% David Butler (Labor) 1.94%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265706 NE Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 New Hampshire Charles H. Sawyer Republican September 2021 David H. Goodell (Republican) 49.45%Charles H. Amsden (Democratic) 48.79%Edgar L. Carr (Prohibition) 1.73%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266666 NH Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Journal of the Honorable Senate of the State of New Hampshire, June Session, 1889. Journals of the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire at Their Session, Holden at the Capitol in Concord Commencing https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433011445560&view=1up&seq=379&skin=2021 Manchester John B. Clarke, Public Printer 366–367 1889 (Legislative election)Since no candidate received 50% of the vote, the state legislature decided the election. Goodell was elected.(held, 5 June 1889)David H. Goodell, 168 votesCharles H. Amsden, 114 votesEdgar L. Carr, 1 vote New York David B. Hill Democratic Re-elected, 49.44% Warner Miller (Republican)Miller ran under a fusion ticket between the Republicans and the United Labor Party. United Labor Convention https://www.nytimes.com/1888/09/20/archives/united-labor-convention.html New York Times New York, NY September 20, 1888 5 11 September 2021 Hissing Gov Hill; why the United Labor Party supports Warner Miller https://www.nytimes.com/1888/09/24/archives/hissing-gov-hill-why-the-united-labor-party-supports-warner-miller.html New York Times New York, NY September 24, 1888 4 11 September 2021 47.98%W. Martin Jones (Prohibition) 2.30%J. Edward Hall (Socialist Labor) 0.25%Lewis E. Page (Union Labor) 0.02%Nathan Wardner (United Labor) 0.00%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=144330 NY Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021Eisenstadt Peter Moss Laura-Eve 2005 The Encyclopedia of New York State https://books.google.com/books?id=tmHEm5ohoCUC&pg=PA674 Syracuse, New York Syracuse University Press 674 0-8156-0808-X Official Vote of New York https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn88054101/1888-12-11/ed-1/seq-2/ Weekly banner-watchman Athens, Ga. December 11, 1888 2 11 September 2021 North Carolina Alfred Moore Scales Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory Daniel Gould Fowle (Democratic) 51.97%Oliver H. Dockery (Republican) 46.93%William T. Walker (Prohibition) 1.09%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=133643 NC Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Journal of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina at its session of 1889. https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p249901coll22/id/517682/rec/67 Raleigh Josephus Daniels, State Printer and Binder 52 1889 Rhode Island(held, 4 April 1888) John W. Davis Democratic Defeated, 44.29% Royal C. Taft (Republican) 52.33%George W. Gould (Prohibition) 3.34%Scattering 0.04%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266715 RI Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Manual with Rules and Orders for the use of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island. 1888-9. State of Rhode Island manual https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924106119559&view=1up&seq=136&skin=2021 Providence, R. I. E. L. Freeman & Son, State Printers 110 1888 South Carolina John Peter Richardson III Democratic Re-elected, 99.97% Scattering 0.03%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=40496 SC Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Our Public Servants https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063760/1888-11-28/ed-1/seq-2/ The Manning times Manning, Clarendon County, S.C. November 28, 1888 2 11 September 2021 Tennessee Robert Love Taylor Democratic Re-elected, 51.80% Samuel W. Hawkins (Republican) 45.92%J. C. Johnson (Prohibition) 2.28%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264749 TN Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021Corlew Robert E. 1981 Tennessee: A Short History https://books.google.com/books?id=9McNQm27VmUC&pg=PA378 Knoxville University of Tennessee Press 378 0-87049-646-8 Texas Lawrence Sullivan Ross Democratic Re-elected, 71.77% Marion Martin (Fusion)Martin ran under a fusion ticket between the Prohibition, Union Labor and Republican parties.https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/martin-francis-marion Martin, Francis Marion (1830–1903) Miller Worth Robert 1952 Handbook of Texas Texas State Historical Association 11 September 2021 28.23%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264394 TX Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Texas Almanac, 1954-1955 https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth117168/m1/348/ Dallas, Texas A. H. Belo Corporation 346 1953 Journal of the House of Representatives, being the Regular Session, Twenty-First Legislature https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/Housejournals/21/01121889_5_51.pdf Austin Smith, Hicks & Jones, State Printers 64 1889 Vermont(held, 4 September 1888) Ebenezer J. Ormsbee Republican Retired, Republican victory William P. Dillingham (Republican) 69.89%Stephen C. Shurtleff (Democratic) 28.13%Henry M. Seeley (Prohibition) 1.98%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=144152 VT Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021 Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont, Biennial Session, 1888. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015065999529&view=1up&seq=351&skin=2021 Montpelier, Vt. Argus and Patriot Job Printing House 347 1889 West Virginia Emanuel Willis Wilson Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory following disputed election (Original count)Nathan Goff Jr. (Republican) 49.27%Aretas B. Fleming (Democratic) 49.21%Scattering 1.52%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265667 WV Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021Rice Otis K. Brown Stephen W. 1993 West Virginia: A History https://books.google.com/books?id=-GcC_XbfuUEC&pg=PA172 Lexington, Kentucky The University Press of Kentucky 172 0-8131-1854-9 (Revised count, conducted by legislature)Aretas B. Fleming (Democratic) 49.31%Nathan Goff Jr. (Republican) 49.16%Scattering 1.53%Jacobs James Henry April 1946 The West Virginia Gubernatorial Election Contest, 1888-1890 http://www.wvculture.org/history/government/1888/1888election.html West Virginia History 7 3 11 September 2021 Jacobs James Henry July 1946 The West Virginia Gubernatorial Election Contest, 1888-1890 http://www.wvculture.org/history/government/1888/1888election2.html West Virginia History 7 4 11 September 2021 The election was disputed and was finally decided by the Democratic-controlled legislature in January 1890. As a result, Fleming did not assume the office until February 6, 1890.http://www.wvculture.org/History/ewwilson.html West Virginia Archives & History: Emanuel Willis Wilson 2016-06-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223420/http://www.wvculture.org/history/ewwilson.html 2013-12-02 dead Wisconsin Jeremiah McLain Rusk Republican Retired, Republican victory William D. Hoard (Republican) 49.53%James Morgan (Democratic) 43.82%E. G. Durant (Prohibition) 4.05%David Frank Powell (Labor) 2.59%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262304 WI Governor, 1888 Our Campaigns 11 September 2021Timme Ernst G. 1889 The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1889 The Milwaukee Litho. & Engr. Co. 251 See also 1888 United States elections References 30em Notes Bibliography Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books 1979 0-930466-17-9 Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 1998 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 1-56802-396-0 Congressional Quarterly 1998 Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911: The Official Results by State and County McFarland 2014 978-0-7864-4722-0 Jefferson, North Carolina McPherson Edward The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for 1889 https://archive.org/details/tribunealmanacpo1889newy New York, NY The Tribune Association 1889 Tribune Almanac 1889 J. A. Piper, Secretary of State 1895 Roster of Soldiers, Sailors and Marines of the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion, Residing in Nebraska, June 1, 1895. https://archive.org/details/rostersoldierss00statgoog/page/n144/mode/2up York, Nebraska Nebraska Newspaper Union 128 Category:November 1888 in the United States