1803 United States gubernatorial elections

none January 2025 1803 United States gubernatorial elections United States 1795 legislative no 1802 United States gubernatorial elections 1802 1804 United States gubernatorial elections 1804 12 state governorships January 11, 1803 – December 19, 1803 Seats up Democratic-Republican Party (United States) 12 governorships 12 13 1 9 8 Federalist Party (United States) 4 governorships 4 4 4 4 USgubernatorial1803.png 324px #5fd45f Democratic-Republican gain #237d23 Democratic-Republican hold#f08a62 Federalist gain #ba3e11 Federalist hold United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1803, in 12 states. Seven governors were elected by popular vote and five were elected by state legislatures. Ohio held its first gubernatorial election on achieving statehood. Results State Election date Incumbent Party Status Opposing candidates Connecticut 14 April 1803Glashan records this election as taking place on 11 April. Jonathan Trumbull Jr. Federalist Re-elected, 14,375 (64.04%) Ephraim Kirby (Democratic-Republican), 7,848 (34.96%)Scattering 223 (0.99%)https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=218394 CT Governor, 1803 Our Campaigns 26 July 2020Glashan 1979 38-39Congressional Quarterly 1998 44Dubin 2003Kallenbach and Kallenbach 1977 86 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Connecticut 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/jd472x28c Georgia(election by legislature) 10 November 1803 Extract of a letter to the editor, dated Louisville, November 11, 1803 https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014395/1803-11-15/ed-1/seq-3/ Georgia Republican & State Intelligencer Savannah, GA 15 November 1803 3 26 July 2020 John Milledge Democratic-Republican Re-elected, 65 votes Solomon Wood, 6 voteshttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=836052 GA Governor, 1803 Our Campaigns 26 July 2020 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Georgia 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/3n203z38v Savannah, Nov. 16 https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014741/1803-11-16/ed-1/seq-3/ Columbian Museum & Savannah Advertiser Savannah, GA 16 November 1803 3 26 July 2020 Maryland(election by legislature) 14 November 1803 John Francis Mercer Democratic-Republican Retired, Democratic-Republican victory Robert Bowie (Democratic-Republican), 75 votesThomas Johnson (Federalist), 5 votesLevin Winder (Federalist), 1 votehttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=122154 MD Governor, 1803 Our Campaigns 26 July 2020Kallenbach and Kallenbach 1977 250 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Maryland 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/t435gd77m Votes and Proceedings of the Senate of the State of Maryland. November Session, 1803 https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/003186/html/m3186-0197.html Annapolis Frederick Green, Printer to the State 5 Massachusetts 4 April 1803One contemporary source states that the election was held on 5 April. Massachusetts election https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045242/1803-04-15/ed-1/seq-2/ The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser Washington, D.C. 15 April 1803 2 26 July 2020 Caleb Strong Federalist Re-elected, 29,199 (67.27%) Elbridge Gerry (Democratic-Republican), 13,910 (32.05%)Some 19th Century sources give Gerry's total as 11,656, and scattering votes as 2,554.Burdick Charles 1814 The Massachusetts Manual: or Political and Historical Register, for the Political Year from June 1814 to June 1815 I https://books.google.com/books?id=DP7Y2qQ68wAC&pg=PA26 Boston Charles Callender 26 The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar; for the Year of Our Lord 1814, &c., &c. 1814 https://books.google.com/books?id=wcw7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA36 Boston John West & Co. 36 Hayward John 1847 A Gazetteer of Massachusetts, &c., &c. https://books.google.com/books?id=4I0-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA417 Boston John Hayward 417 Scattering 298 (0.69%)https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=224327 MA Governor, 1803 Our Campaigns 26 July 2020Glashan 1979 140-141Congressional Quarterly 1998 57Dubin 2003Kallenbach and Kallenbach 1977 266 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Massachusetts 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/2b88qd518 New Hampshire 8 March 1803 John Taylor Gilman Federalist Re-elected, 12,263 (57.53%) John Langdon (Democratic-Republican), 9,011 (42.27%)Scattering 43 (0.20%)https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=235659 NH Governor, 1803 Our Campaigns 26 July 2020Glashan 1979 200-201Congressional Quarterly 1998 66Dubin 2003Kallenbach and Kallenbach 1977 372 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives New Hampshire 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/zg64tn43z A Journal of the Proceedings of the honorable Senate of the State of New-Hampshire, at their Session, begun and holden at Concord, on the first Wednesday of June, Anno Domini, 1803 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112110156152&view=1up&seq=16 Concord George Hough, Printer to the State 8–9 1803 Farmer James The New Hampshire Annual Register and United States Calendar, 1833 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxkwqy&view=1up&seq=28 Concord Marsh, Capen and Lyon 18 New Jersey(election by legislature) 27 October 1803 John Lambert (acting)The 1802 election was deadlocked, with the legislature unable to pick a candidate, giving up on November 25, 1802. Lambert, as vice-president of the Legislative Council, acted as governor until the next election. Democratic-Republican Retired, Democratic-Republican victory Joseph Bloomfield (Democratic-Republican), 33 votesRichard Stockton (Federalist), 17 votesKallenbach and Kallenbach 1977 411 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives New Jersey 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/6m311r068 Lee Francis Bazely 1902 New Jersey as a colony and a state 3 https://archive.org/details/newjerseyascolon05leef/page/156/mode/1up New York Publishing Society of New Jersey 156 Journal of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the State of New-Jersey, &c., &c. Being the First Sitting of the 28th Session Minutes and Proceedings of the Joint-Meeting. In Joint-Meeting. Thursday, October 27, 1803 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101077906251&view=1up&seq=366 Trenton Tuttle & Pike, Printers in part to the State 40 1803 North Carolina(election by legislature) 28 November 1803 James Turner Democratic-Republican Re-elected, unknown number of votes Scattering, 2 voteshttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=274303 NC Governor, 1803 Our Campaigns 26 July 2020 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives North Carolina 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/fn106z095 Washington City. Wednesday, December 14 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045242/1803-12-14/ed-1/seq-3/ The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser Washington, D.C. 14 December 1803 3 26 July 2020 Ohio 11 January 1803Steinglass Steven H. Scarselli Gino J. 2011 The Ohio State Constitution https://books.google.com/books?id=4OtMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 New York, NY Oxford University Press 18 978-0-19-977872-0 New state Edward Tiffin (Democratic-Republican), 5,377 (90.43%)Glashan gives Tiffin's total as 5,373. This discrepancy appears to involve four votes given for "Edwin Tiffin" and "Tiffin" in Washington County. OurCampaigns gives Tiffin's total as 5,379. This discrepancy appears to involve a double-counting of the difference between reports giving 452 votes and 454 votes for Tiffin in Belmont County.A number of sources record that in the General Assembly, Tiffin was recorded as having 4,564 votes and no opposition. First Legislature of Ohio https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32597520/the-highland-weekly-news/ The Highland Weekly News Hillsboro, OH 27 January 1870 2 26 July 2020 Sloane Rush R. January 1901 When Did Ohio in Fact Become a Sovereign State of the Union? https://resources.ohiohistory.org/ohj/search/display.php?page=1&ipp=20&searchterm=toledo%20strike&vol=9&pages=278-289 Ohio History Journal 9 3 278–289 26 July 2020 Utler William T. 1942 The History of the State of Ohio. The Frontier State: 1803-1825 II https://archive.org/details/historyofstateof02witt/page/26/mode/2up Columbus, OH The Ohio Historical Society 26 Taylor William Alexander Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County https://books.google.com/books?id=hXFKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA179 North Charleston, SC Createspace 179 9783849673543 Milligan Fred J. 2003 Ohio's Founding Fathers https://books.google.com/books?id=0CGoZoKlKuAC&pg=PA146 iUniverse, Inc. 146 0-595-29322-0 Sears Alfred Byron 1958 Thomas Worthington: Father of Ohio Statehood https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/31748/1/THOMAS_WORTHINGTON_FATHER_OF_OHIO_STATEHOOD.pdf Columbus, OH Ohio State University Press 109 0-8142-0745-6 Ratcliffe Donald John 1985 The origins of the second American party system, the Ohio evidence Doctor of Philosophy Appendix 2 Durham University 599–600 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7045/ 26 July 2020 Gilmore William Edward 1897 Life of Edward Tiffin, First Governor of Ohio https://archive.org/stream/lifeofedwardtiff00gilm/lifeofedwardtiff00gilm#page/86/mode/2up Chillicothe, OH Horney & Son 86 This result can be achieved by setting aside the results from Fairfield County and Washington County.Benjamin Ives Gilman (Federalist), 246 (4.14%)Arthur St. Clair (Federalist), 234 (3.93%)Bezaleel Wells (Federalist), 89 (1.50%)Scattering, unknown18 scattering votes were recorded in Washington County, and 3 in Ross County. In addition, “a few” scattering votes were recorded in Belmont County, and 20 persons other than Tiffin and Gilman received votes in Hamilton County.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=94241 OH Governor, 1803 Our Campaigns 26 July 2020Glashan 1979 244-245Congressional Quarterly 1998 72Dubin 2003Kallenbach and Kallenbach 1977 457 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Ohio 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/z316q161n Ratcliffe Donald J. 1998 Party spirit in a frontier republic: democratic politics in Ohio, 1793-1821 Columbus, OH Ohio State University Press 76 1811/30229?show=full 0-8142-0775-8 Washington City, February 7 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024710/1803-02-19/ed-1/seq-3/ Virginia Argus Richmond, VA 19 February 1803 3 26 July 2020 Chilicothe, (State of Ohio.) January 22 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8726095/zenas-kimberly-1803/ The Wilmington Gazette Wilmington, NC 17 March 1803 4 26 July 2020 Rhode Island 20 April 1803 April 23, 1803 Newport, Saturday, April 23, 1803 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83021188/1803-04-23/ed-1/seq-3/ Rhode-Island Republican Newport, R.I. 3 14 December 2021 Arthur Fenner Democratic-Republican/Country Re-elected. Returns lost.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=237766 RI Governor, 1803 Our Campaigns 26 July 2020Glashan 1979 268-269Congressional Quarterly 1998 76Dubin 2003Kallenbach and Kallenbach 1977 507 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Rhode Island 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/2514nm177 J. Fred Parker, Secretary of State 1914 Manual, with Rules and Orders, for the use of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, 1914 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ky8tAQAAMAAJ/page/n144/mode/1up Providence, RI E. L. Freeman Company, State Printers 107 Tennessee 4–5 August 1803 Archibald Roane Democratic-Republican Defeated, 4,923 (42.07%)Returns incomplete. Returns recorded from only nine counties.Glashan records the result as Sevier 7,733, Roane, 5,219, and that returns were recorded from ten counties. It is unclear which is the additional county. John Sevier (Democratic-Republican), 6,780 (57.93%)Some sources give Sevier's total as 6,786.Congressional Quarterly 1998 79Kallenbach and Kallenbach 1977 550Wilkerson Lyn 2009 Slow Travels - Tennessee https://books.google.com/books?id=1908AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA20 20 978-0-557-09566-7 Compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration of the State of Tennessee Tennessee: A Guide to the State https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066068928&view=2up&seq=464 New York, NY Viking Press 436 1939 Heiskell S. G. 1918 Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History The Governors of the State https://archive.org/details/andrewjacksonear00inheis/page/166/mode/2up Nashville, TN Ambrose Printing Company 166 Williams Samuel C. October 1924 Tennessee's first military expedition (1803) Tennessee Historical Magazine 8 3 171–190 42637493 https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=238442 TN Governor, 1803 Our Campaigns 26 July 2020Glashan 1979 294-295Dubin 2003 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Tennessee 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/12579s794 Miller Charles A. 1890 The Official and Political Manual of the State of Tennessee https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0r0ZAAAAYAAJ/page/n181/mode/2up Nashville, TN Marshall & Bruce, Stationers 169 Corlew Robert E. 1990 Tennessee, a short history https://books.google.com/books?id=9McNQm27VmUC&pg=PA134 Knoxville, TN University of Tennessee Press 134 0-87049-646-8 Vermont 6 September 1803 Washington City. Wednesday, September 28 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045242/1803-09-28/ed-1/seq-3/ The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser Washington, D.C. 28 September 1803 3 26 July 2020 Isaac Tichenor Federalist Re-elected, 7,940 (57.98%)Some sources do not give a full result but only report that Tichenor had a majority of 2,186. This is the excess of Tichenor's vote over the combined total for Robinson and scattering votes. Jonathan Robinson (Democratic-Republican), 5,408 (39.49%)Scattering 346 (2.53%)https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=144075 VT Governor, 1803 Our Campaigns 26 July 2020Glashan 1979 314-315Congressional Quarterly 1998 83Dubin 2003Kallenbach and Kallenbach 1977 606 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Vermont 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/76537159p Walton E. P. 1876 Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont IV https://archive.org/details/vermontgovrecords04waltrich/page/370/mode/1up Montpelier Steam Press of J. & J. M. Poland Record of the Governor and Council at the Session of the General Assembly at Westminster, Oct. 1803 370 https://vtelectionarchive.sec.state.vt.us/elections/get_source_documentation/82826&ved=2ahUKEwjF4OzT4rnqAhVzmVwKHUtnASUQFjABegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw00fRDCkLseXU15Zy0hM-Vt General Election Results: Governor 2 Election Results Archive Office of the Vermont Secretary of State 26 July 2020 June 2026 InternetArchiveBot Coolidge A. J. Mansfield J. B. 1860 History and Description of New England: Vermont https://archive.org/details/historydescrip00cool/page/964/mode/1up Boston Austin J. Coolidge Governors and Gubernatorial Vote 964 Burlington, Oct. 19, 1803 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/488980720/ Sentinel and Democrat Burlington, VT 20 October 1803 3 26 July 2020 Virginia(election by legislature) 19 December 1803Letter To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney 20 December 1803 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0133 26 July 2020 Richmond, VA John Page Democratic-Republican Re-elected, unanimouslyhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=783628 VA Governor, 1803 Our Campaigns 26 July 2020 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Virginia 1803 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 26 July 2020 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/1r66j199m See also 1803 United States elections References 30em Notes Bibliography Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 0-930466-17-9 Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 1-56802-396-0 Congressional Quarterly 1998 Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County McFarland 2003 978-0-7864-1439-0 Jefferson, North Carolina Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. 1977 American State Governors, 1776-1976 I Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Oceana Publications, Inc. 0-379-00665-0 Kallenbach and Kallenbach 1977 collapsed