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1833 Maine gubernatorial election Maine presidential no 1832 Maine gubernatorial election 1832 1834 Maine gubernatorial election 1834 September 9, 1833 100px Robert P. Dunlap Democratic Party (United States) 25,731 52.14% 100px Daniel Goodenow National Republican Party (United States) 18,112 36.70% 100px Samuel E. Smith Independent Democrat 3,024 6.13% 1833 Maine gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 200px County results Dunlap: #A5B0FF 40–50% #7996E2 50–60% #6674DE 60–70% #584CDE 70–80%Goodenow: #E27F7F 50–60% Governor Samuel E. Smith Democratic Party (United States) Robert P. Dunlap Democratic Party (United States)
The 1833 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 9, 1833. Incumbent Democratic Governor Samuel E. Smith was defeated for re-nomination by Robert P. Dunlap. Smith ran for re-election as an Independent Democrat.
Dunlap defeated National Republican candidate Daniel Goodenow and Smith with 52.14% of the vote.
Democratic nomination
The Democratic state convention was held on June 26, 1833, at Augusta, Maine.Ginn Roger 2016 New England Must Not Be Trampled On: The Tragic Death of Jonathan Cilley https://books.google.com/books?id=WkE1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80 Lanham, Maryland Down East Books 80 9781608933877
Nominee
Robert P. Dunlap, state senator, former President of the Maine Senate, former member of the Executive Council2011-01-05 Robert Pinckney Dunlap https://www.nga.org/governor/robert-pinckney-dunlap/ 2026-07-10 National Governors Association
Lost at convention
Samuel E. Smith, incumbent governor (Democratic)2011-01-05 Samuel Emerson Smith https://www.nga.org/governor/samuel-emerson-smith/ 2026-07-08 National Governors Association
Democratic gubernatorial nomination, 1st ballotHatch Louis Clinton 1919 Maine: A History I https://archive.org/details/maineahistory01mainuoft/page/n259/mode/2up New York The American Historical Society 214 Maine https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn90052030/1833-07-09/ed-1/seq-2/ The Georgia constitutionalist Augusta, Ga. July 9, 1833 2 30 April 2021DeWitt Darin Dion 2013 Party Formation in the United States PhD Party Formation in New England: Maine 109 University of California, Los Angeles https://escholarship.org/content/qt4958z49q/qt4958z49q_noSplash_b66ce9bf0522526d2cc6e9bc8bcc56ca.pdf 2 May 2021Webb Lee D. 2017 Party Development and Political Conflict in Maine 1820-1860 From Statehood to the Civil War PhD Andrew Jackson and the Birth of Political Parties 115 University of Maine https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2653/ 30 April 2021 Maine https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025006/1833-07-03/ed-1/seq-2/ Phenix gazette Alexandria, D.C. July 3, 1833 2 30 April 2021 Maine https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042477/1833-07-12/ed-1/seq-3/ Delaware State journal, advertiser and star Wilmington, Del. July 12, 1833 3 30 April 2021
Democratic Party (United States)
Robert P. Dunlap
185
68.3
Democratic Party (United States)
Samuel E. Smith
79
29.1
Scattering
7
2.6
271 100.00
Results
Candidates
Daniel Goodenow, former Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, National Republican candidate for governor in 1831 and 1832 (National Republican)Cleaves Law Library [SJCBios] http://www.cleaves.org/sjcbios1.htm#DG 2026-07-09 www.cleaves.org
Thomas A. Hill, lawyer, banker, and speculator (Anti-Masonic)About Thomas A. Hill Bangor Historical Society https://bangorhistoricalsociety.org/about-thomas-a-hill/ 2026-07-10 en
1833 Maine gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=222329 ME Governor, 1833 Our Campaigns 30 April 2021Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 124–125 0-930466-17-9Guide to US Elections, Fifth Edition, Volume II CQ Press 2005 1497 https://archive.org/details/guidetouselectio00cqpr/page/1497 978-1-56802-981-8 30 April 2021 registration Maine Senate Journal 1834 https://digitalmaine.com/arc_leg_journals/28/ Legislative Journals digitalmaine.com 7 1834 Compiled by Samuel L. Harris The Maine Register, and National Calendar, for the Year 1841 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn78lq&view=1up&seq=116 Portland A. Shirley, Printer 106 1841 Documents Printed by Order of the Legislature of the State of Maine. 1864 http://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/Rpts/PubDocs/PubDocs1864/PD1864_00A.pdf Augusta Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State 163 1864
Democratic Party (United States) Robert P. Dunlap 25,731 52.14% 0.65
National Republican Party (United States) Daniel Goodenow 18,112 36.70% 8.93
Independent Democrat Samuel E. Smith (incumbent) 3,024 6.13% N/A
Anti-Masonic Party Thomas A. Hill 2,384 4.83% 3.40
Scattering 101 0.20% 0.05
7,619 15.44% 8.28
49,352 100.00% 18.56
Democratic Party (United States)
References
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