1876 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1876 Massachusetts gubernatorial election Massachusetts presidential No 1875 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 1875 1877 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 1877 1876 11 7 File:AlexanderHRice (cropped).jpg 150x150px Alexander H. Rice Republican Party (United States) 137,665 53.59% File:Charles Francis Adams Sr by William Morris Hunt 1867 (cropped).jpeg Charles Francis Adams Sr. Democratic Party (United States) 106,850 41.59% 300px County results 300px Municipality results Rice: #FFB2B2 40-50% #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #c21b18 80–90% #a80000 >90%Adams: #A5B0FF 40-50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70%Tie: #D2B1D9 40-50% Governor Alexander H. Rice Republican Party (United States) Alexander H. Rice Republican Party (United States) The 1876 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 7. Incumbent Republican governor Alexander H. Rice was re-elected to a second term in office over former Minister to the United Kingdom Charles F. Adams. Republican nomination Candidates Alexander H. Rice, incumbent governor since January and former mayor of Boston Convention Rice was nominated without opposition at the convention in Worcester on September 5.Political: Gov. Rice Renomination by the Massachusetts Republicans The Nashville Tennessean 6 Sep 1876 1 Democratic nomination Candidates Charles F. Adams, former United States Minister to the United Kingdom (1861–68) and member of the Adams family William Gaston, former governor (1875–76) Campaign Former governor William Gaston, who had been the party nominee in the prior three elections, was considered an early favorite for a fourth nomination.ADAMS NOMINATED 7 Sep 1876 Worcester New York Tribune 1 However, a movement to draft Charles F. Adams, the former Minister to Great Britain during the Civil War, was brought about by New York associates of Governor Samuel Tilden, who had become the party's presidential nominee and national leader at the 1876 Democratic National Convention in June. At the convention, the boom for Adams was led by delegates from Western Massachusetts and supported on the grounds that an Adams nomination would lend support to Tilden's reformist campaign for president. Opposition to Adams came from conservative Bourbon Democrats, who opposed Adams for his former membership in the Republican Party, and Irish-born Democrats. Convention U.S. representative William W. Warren was named permanent chairman of the convention at Worcester on September 6.The Massachusetts Democrats: Charles Francis Adams for Governor 3 Hartford Daily Courant 7 Sep 1876 He gave a long speech embracing Tilden, Adams, and Gaston and opposed to the Grant administration's policy of protective tariffs and failure to resume specie payments.Although the Specie Payment Resumption Act passed Congress the year before, Warren argued the Act was "valueless" and would be ineffective. When the Committee on Resolutions was announced, competing cheers were made for Patrick Collins, a Gaston supporter from Boston, and James Scollay Whitney, an Adams supporter from the West. Whitney gave a speech explaining that a compromise would be reached between the parties and a recess was called. During the recess, Gaston allegedly received a telegram from Tilden requesting his withdrawal. During a recess, Gaston withdrew his name from consideration. He was welcomed to the stage and withdrew his name, moving to nominate Adams by acclamation. Whitney declined calls to for him to "Call for the Nays!" and the ticket was carried without dissent recorded. Gaston was made an elector-at-large for the Tilden ticket, though some hoped that he would be nominated for lieutenant governor on the assumption that Adams would join the Tilden cabinet. There were some rumors that Adams would decline the nomination,Hobart F A Boston Daily Globe 15 Sep 1876 1 Will Adams Stand? A Rumor Afloat that He will Decline. but nothing came of them. General election Campaign The Rice campaign faced opposition from prohibitionists, labor reformers, and conservative Republicans. There were rumors of U.S. representative Benjamin Butler, a powerful kingmaker from Lowell, throwing his support behind Prohibition candidate John I. Baker in revenge for Rice's support of Ebenezer R. Hoar's independent campaign against Butler. The Labor Reform Party also urged support for Baker.Labor Reform Convention https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/735174611 Boston Evening Transcript September 14, 1876 Adams's strength was among intellectuals, reformers, and in the West.MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS: Bright Democratic Prospects 27 Oct 1876 2 Cincinnati Enquirer During the campaign, U.S. senator James G. Blaine attacked Adams for his conduct during the War and his earlier proposal to preserve slavery by constitutional amendment.Blaine on Adams: He Scores Charles Francis on His Political Record 15 Oct 1876 3 San Francisco Chronicle Results Ultimately, Rice won re-election with an increased majority, although far smaller than Rutherford B. Hayes's majority in the presidential election, owing to the Prohibition campaign against him. 1876 Massachusetts gubernatorial election1876 Massachusetts governor results http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2665231877 Manual for the General Court, 1877 https://archive.org/stream/manualforuseofge1877mass#page/272/mode/1up Boston, MA Albert J. Wright, State Printer Republican Party (United States) Alexander H. Rice (incumbent) 137,665 53.59% Democratic Party (United States) Charles Francis Adams Sr. 106,850 41.59% Prohibition Party John I. Baker 12,274 4.78% Others Others 115 0.05% Republican Party (United States) See also 1876 Massachusetts legislature Notes References Governor 1876 Massachusetts Category:November 1876 in the United States