1820 Kentucky gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1820 Kentucky gubernatorial election Presidential no 1816 Kentucky gubernatorial election 1816 1824 Kentucky gubernatorial election 1824 August 7, 1820 x150px John Adair Democratic-Republican Party (United States) 20,493 32.83% x150px William Logan Democratic-Republican Party (United States) 19,947 31.95% x150px Joseph Desha Democratic-Republican Party (United States) 12,419 19.89% x100px Anthony Butler Democratic-Republican Party (United States) 9,567 15.33% 300px County results 300px Congressional district results 1 300px Adair: #d6efdc 30–40% #a3d5af 40–50% #73bc84 50–60% #3fa457 60–70% #008c21 70–80% #006e1a 80–90%Logan: #dee8fb 30–40% #b4c7ec 40–50% #8da9e2 50–60% #678cd7 60–70% #4170cd 70–80% #3358a2 80–90% #244079 90–100%Desha: #fbdedd 30–40% #f1b4b2 40–50% #ed8783 50–60% #e55651 60–70% #d02923 70–80% #b00600 80–90%Butler: #f0e6be 30–40% #d7c477 40–50% #a88600 60–70% #735c00 80–90% Governor Gabriel Slaughter (acting) Democratic-Republican Party (United States) John Adair Democratic-Republican Party (United States) The 1820 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on August 7, 1820. Acting Democratic-Republican Governor Gabriel Slaughter did not stand for re-election. Former U.S. Senator John Adair defeated Anthony Butler, Joseph Desha, and William Logan with 32.83% of the vote. General election Candidates John Adair, former U.S. Senator Anthony Butler, member of the Kentucky House of RepresentativesRussell D. James Spencer Tucker Butler, Anthony Wayne The Encyclopedia of the Mexican–American War https://books.google.com/books?id=FZVQcZpic-8C&q=Butler ABC-CLIO 2013 99–100 9781851098538 Joseph Desha, former U.S. Representative William Logan, former U.S. Senator Withdrawn John Emmerson February 29, 1820 Candidates in Kentucky https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015374/1820-02-29/ed-1/seq-3/ Edwardsville spectator Edwardsville, Ill. 3 16 April 2022 Mathias Frank F. April 1973 The Relief and Court Struggle: Half-Way House to Populism https://www.jstor.org/stable/23377608 The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 71 2 154–176 Kentucky Historical Society 23377608 16 April 2022 Adair, Butler, Desha and Emmerson represented the pro-relief faction and Logan represented the anti-relief faction.Mathias Frank F. Shannon Jasper B. Summer 1990 Gubernatorial Politics in Kentucky, 1820-1851 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23381730 The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 88 3 245–277 Kentucky Historical Society 23381730 16 April 2022 Results 1820 Kentucky gubernatorial electionGubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 1998 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 53 1-56802-396-0 Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 108–109 0-930466-17-9Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. 1977 American State Governors, 1776-1976 I Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Oceana Publications, Inc. 208–209 0-379-00665-0 Connelley William Elsey Coulter E. M. 1922 History of Kentucky https://archive.org/details/historyofkentuck02kerr/page/629/mode/1up II The American Historical Society Chicago and New York 629 Shaffner Taliaferro P. 1847 The Kentucky State Register, for the year 1847 https://books.google.com/books?id=KYgSAAAAYAAJ Louisville Morton & Griswold 192 September 16, 1820 Kentucky https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044078909793&view=1up&seq=60&skin=2021 Niles' Weekly Register XIX 471 48 Baltimore 14 April 2022 Young Bennett H. 1903 The Battle of the Thames https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/H002142.pdf Louisville, Kentucky John P. Morton and Company 127 Some sources give slightly different votes for Butler and Desha.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=219183 KY Governor, 1820 Our Campaigns 14 April 2022 Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County 71–72 McFarland 2003 978-0-7864-1439-0 Jefferson, North Carolina Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Kentucky 1820 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 14 April 2022 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/j38607634 Harrison Lowell H. 2004 Kentucky's Governors https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/232566909.pdf The University Press of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky 27 0-8131-2326-7 Kleber John E. 1992 The Kentucky Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=CcceBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 The University Press of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky 2 0-8131-1772-0 Democratic-Republican Party (United States) John Adair 20,493 32.83% Democratic-Republican Party (United States) William Logan 19,947 31.95% Democratic-Republican Party (United States) Joseph Desha 12,419 19.89% Democratic-Republican Party (United States) Anthony Butler 9,567 15.33% 546 0.88% 62,426 Democratic-Republican Party (United States) See also Old Court – New Court controversy Notes References 1820 Kentucky Gubernatorial Category:August 1820