1824 Kentucky gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1824 Kentucky gubernatorial election Presidential no 1820 Kentucky gubernatorial election 1820 1828 Kentucky gubernatorial election 1828 August 2, 1824 x150px Joseph Desha Democratic-Republican Party (United States) 38,378 59.25% x100px Christopher Tompkins Democratic-Republican Party (United States) 22,499 34.73% x100px William Russell Democratic-Republican Party (United States) 3,900 6.02% 300px County results 300px Congressional district results 1 Desha: #AFE9AF 40–50% #73D873 50–60% #42CA42 60–70% #30A630 70–80% #217821 80–90% #165016 90–100%Tompkins: #E27F7F 50–60% #D75D5D 60–70% #D72F30 70–80% #C21B18 80–90%Russell: #FFCCAA 40–50%No Data/Vote: #808080 Governor John Adair Democratic-Republican Party (United States) Joseph Desha Democratic-Republican Party (United States) The 1824 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on August 2, 1824. Incumbent Democratic-Republican Governor John Adair was term-limited, and could not seek a second consecutive term. Former U.S. Representative Joseph Desha defeated Christopher Tompkins and William Russell with 59.25% of the vote. General election Candidates Joseph Desha, former U.S. Representative William Russell, member of the Kentucky House of RepresentativesAllen 1872 51–53 Christopher Tompkins, former circuit judgeAllen 1872 367Barnes Robert Barnes Catherine 1982 Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly V https://books.google.com/books?id=-omPLYeCtsQC&pg=PA181 Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc. 181 0-8063-0960-1 Desha represented the pro-relief faction and Tompkins and Russell represented the anti-relief faction.Doutrich III Paul E. January 1982 A Pivotal Decision: The 1824 Gubernatorial Election in Kentucky https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/publicationpdfs/56-1-3_A-Pivotal-Decision-The-1824-Gubernatorial-Election-in-Kentucky_Doutrich-Paul-E.-III.pdf The Filson Club History Quarterly 56 1 14–29 Louisville, Kentucky 17 April 2022 Results 1824 Kentucky gubernatorial electionGlashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 108–109 0-930466-17-9 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Kentucky 1824 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 17 April 2022 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/pg15bf545 Harrison Lowell H. 2004 Kentucky's Governors https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/232566909.pdf The University Press of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky 29 0-8131-2326-7 Shaffner Taliaferro P. 1847 The Kentucky State Register, for the year 1847 https://books.google.com/books?id=KYgSAAAAYAAJ Louisville Morton & Griswold 192 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 17 April 2022 Padgett James A. January 1940 Correspondence Between Governor Joseph Desha and Amos Kendall, 1831–1835 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23371751 Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society 38 122 5–24 Kentucky Historical Society 23371751 17 April 2022 Some sources give the result as Desha 38,463, Tompkins 22,300, Russell 3,899.Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 1998 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 53 1-56802-396-0 Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. 1977 American State Governors, 1776-1976 I Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Oceana Publications, Inc. 209 0-379-00665-0 Some sources give Desha's vote as 38,369.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=219185 KY Governor, 1824 Our Campaigns 17 April 2022 Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County 72–73 McFarland 2003 978-0-7864-1439-0 Jefferson, North Carolina Democratic-Republican Party (United States) Joseph Desha 38,378 59.25% +39.36% Democratic-Republican Party (United States) Christopher Tompkins 22,499 34.73% N/A Democratic-Republican Party (United States) William Russell 3,900 6.02% N/A 15,879 24.52% 64,777 Democratic-Republican Party (United States) References Allen William B. 1872 A History of Kentucky, Embracing Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Statistics, and Biographical Sketches of Pioneers, Soldiers, Jurists, Lawyers, Statesmen, Divines, Mechanics, Farmers, Merchants, and other leading men, of all occupations and pursuits https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s_wTAAAAYAAJ/ Louisville, Ky. Bradley & Gilbert Notes References 1824 Kentucky Gubernatorial Category:August 1824