1896 United States gubernatorial elections

none January 2025 1896 United States gubernatorial elections United States 1896 legislative no 1895 United States gubernatorial elections 1895 1897 United States gubernatorial elections 1897 Seats up Seats won 32 governorships November 3, 1896Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont held early elections. Republican Party (United States) 26 24 2 17 15 Democratic Party (United States) 17 16 1 14 13 Populist Party (United States) 1 4 3 1 4 Silver Party 1 1 0 0 1896 United States gubernatorial elections results map.svg 324px #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold#288B37 Populist gain #5FD170 Populist hold United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1896, in 32 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 3, 1896 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections). Following the death of Delaware Governor Joshua H. Marvil, the General Assembly scheduled the next gubernatorial election for 1896, two years into the term. Delaware's gubernatorial elections have been held in presidential election years ever since. In Florida, the gubernatorial election was held in October for the last time. The subsequent election days were moved to the same day as federal elections from the 1900 elections.http://fall.fsulawrc.com/crc/conhist/1896amen.html Amendments, Election of 10-6-1896 Florida Constitution Revision Commission 27 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20181122101614/http://fall.fsulawrc.com/crc/conhist/1896amen.html 22 November 2018 Results State Incumbent Party Status Opposing candidates Alabama(held, 3 August 1896) William C. Oates Democratic Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory Joseph F. Johnston (Democratic) 59.01%Albert Taylor Goodwyn (Populist)Some 19th Century sources indicate Goodwyn ran under a fusion ticket between the Populists and the Republicans.Tribune Almanac 1897 228World Almanac 1897 425 40.99%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262837 AL Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Arkansas(held, 7 September 1896) James Paul Clarke Democratic Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory Daniel Webster Jones (Democratic) 64.26%Harmon L. Remmel (Republican) 25.28%Abner W. Files September 7, 1896 Large Vote in Arkansas https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024441/1896-09-07/ed-1/seq-1/ The evening times Washington, D.C. 1 17 September 2021 September 11, 1896 Hurrah for Arkansas! https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89060092/1896-09-11/ed-1/seq-4/ The citizen Frederick City, Md. 4 17 September 2021 (Populist) 9.86%J. W. Miller (Prohibition) 0.60%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265298 AR Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020Russell Marvin F. Autumn 1977 The Rise of a Republican Leader: Harmon L. Remmel https://www.jstor.org/stable/40018534 The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 36 3 234–257 10.2307/40018534 40018534 17 September 2021 subscription Colorado Albert McIntire Republican August 2020 Alva Adams (Democratic)Adams ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Silver Republican Party 46.22%Morton Shelley Bailey (Populist)Bailey ran under a fusion ticket between the Populists and the National Silver Party 37.98%George W. Allen (Republican) 12.66%Davis H. Waite (Midroad-Populist) 1.78%Scattering 1.36%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264792 CO Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Connecticut Owen Vincent Coffin Republican Retired, Republican victory Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican) 62.53%Joseph B. Sargent (Democratic) 32.48%Lewis Sperry (National Democratic) 3.21%Edward Manchester (Prohibition) 1.06%John A. Norton (Socialist Labor) 0.72%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266586 CT Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Delaware William T. Watson (acting) Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory Ebe W. Tunnell (Democratic) 44.20%John H. Hoffecker (Union Republican) 31.40%John C. Higgins (Anti-Addicks Republican) 20.39%Louis N. Slaughter (Single Tax) 2.44%Daniel M. Green (Prohibition) 1.56%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266276 DE Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 1897 State of Delaware. Journal of the House of Representatives at a Session of the General Assembly convened and held at Dover, on Tuesday, the fifth day of January, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Seven, &c., &c. https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/22149 Wilmington, Delaware The Star Pub. Co., Printers 76–78 Florida(held, 6 October 1896)Jno. L. Crawford, Secretary of State John L. Crawford 1896 Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Florida, for the Period Beginning Jan. 1, 1895, and ending Dec. 31, 1896. http://edocs.dlis.state.fl.us/fldocs/dos/secretarystatereport/reportofsecre18871900flor.pdf Tallahassee, Fla. Floridian Printing Company 8 Henry L. Mitchell Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory William D. Bloxham (Democratic) 66.71%Edward R. Gunby (Republican) 20.35%William A. Wicks (Populist) 12.94%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=261792 FL Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020McGovern Bernie 2007 Florida Almanac 2007-2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=NclDpB3Fn5AC&pg=PA478 Gretna, Louisiana Pelican Publishing Company 478 978-1-58980-428-9 Georgia(held, 7 October 1896) William Yates Atkinson Democratic Re-elected, 58.47% Seaborn Wright (Populist) 41.53%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264453 GA Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Official Vote of Georgia https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=IJ18961030.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN 30 October 1896 2 18 November 2020 Idaho William J. McConnell Republican Retired, Democratic victory Frank Steunenberg (Democratic)Steunenberg ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats, the Populists and the Silver Republican Party. 76.79%David Budlong (Republican) 22.38%Moses F. Fowler (Prohibition) 0.83%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266194 ID Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Illinois John Peter Altgeld Democratic Defeated, 43.66% John Riley Tanner (Republican) 54.10%George Washington Gere (Prohibition) 1.34%William St. John Forman (National Democratic) 0.75%Charles A. Baustian (Socialist Labor) 0.09%Isaac W. Higgs (National Prohibition) 0.07%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263300 IL Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 1897 Journal of the Senate of the Fortieth General Assembly of the State of Illinois. Convened at the Capitol, in Springfield, January 6, 1897, and adjourned sine die June 4, 1897 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.aa0001668557&view=1up&seq=173 Springfield, Ill. Phillips Bros., State Printers 159 Indiana Claude Matthews Democratic Term-limited, Republican victory James A. Mount (Republican) 50.93%Benjamin F. Shively (Democratic) 46.79%Thomas Wadsworth (Populist) 1.37%Leander M. Crist (Prohibition) 0.48%A. G. Burkhart (National Prohibition) 0.40%Philip H. Moore (Socialist Labor) 0.04%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263320 IN Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 1897 Journal of the Indiana State Senate during the Sixtieth Session of the General Assembly, commencing Thursday, January 7, 1897. Regular Session. Issues for -1971 Have Title:journal of the Indiana State Senate of the State of Indiana Journal of the Indiana State Senate during the ... Session of the General Assembly (1858) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000061415133&view=1up&seq=76 Indianapolis Wm. B. Burford, Contractor for State Printing and Binding 70 Kansas Edmund Needham Morrill Republican Defeated, 48.30% John W. Leedy (Populist)Leedy ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party. 50.56%Horace Hurley (Prohibition) 0.71%Henry L. Douthart (National Prohibition) 0.23%A. E. Kepford (Independent Prohibition) 0.21%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265552 KS Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Botkin ahead of them all https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014635/1896-11-26/ed-1/seq-2/ The Wichita daily eagle Wichita, KS 26 November 1896 2 18 November 2020 Louisiana(held, 21 April 1896) Murphy J. Foster Democratic Re-elected, 56.27% John N. Pharr (Populist)Pharr ran under a fusion ticket between the Republicans and the Populist Party. 43.64%A. B. Booth 0.09%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263334 LA Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020Calhoun Milburn 2008 Louisiana Almanac 2008-2009 https://books.google.com/books?id=9OMCy5CUprgC&pg=PA510 Gretna, Louisiana Pelican Publishing Company 510 978-1-58980-542-2 1896 Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the State of Louisiana at the Regular Session begun and held in the City of Baton Rouge, May 11th, 1896 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.74636029&view=1up&seq=35 Baton Rouge, LA The Advocate, Official Journal of Louisiana 29 Maine(held, 14 September 1896) Henry B. Cleaves Republican Retired, Republican victory Llewellyn Powers (Republican) 66.84%Melvin P. Frank (Democratic) 27.79%Luther C. Bateman (Populist) 2.67%Ammi S. Ladd (Prohibition) 2.19%William H. Clifford (National Democratic) 0.49%Scattering 0.03%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266630 ME Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Legislative Record of the Sixty-Eighth Legislature of the State of Maine, 1897 http://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/LegRec/_68/Senate/LegRec_1897-01-07_SP_p0008-0010.pdf 8 Massachusetts Roger Wolcott (acting) Republican Re-elected, 67.05% George Fred Williams (Democratic) 26.92%Frederick O. Prince (National Democratic) 3.68%Thomas C. Brophy (Socialist Labor) 1.18%Allen Coffin (Prohibition) 1.16%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266539 MA Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020Coolidge Henry D. Kimball James W. 1897 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Manual for the Use of the General Court, &c., &c. https://archive.org/stream/manualforuseofge1897mass#page/368/mode/2up Boston Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers 369 Michigan John T. Rich Republican Retired, Republican victory Hazen S. Pingree (Republican) 55.57%Charles R. Sligh (Democratic)Sligh ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats, the Populists and the Union Silver Party. 40.35%Rufus S. Sprague (National Democratic) 1.78%Robert C. Safford (Prohibition) 1.00%John Gilberson (National Prohibition) 0.35%Scattering 0.94%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=148144 MI Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Minnesota David Marston Clough (acting) Republican Re-elected, 49.18% John Lind (Democratic)Lind ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party. 48.10%William J. Dean (Prohibition) 1.53%Albert Alonzo Ames (Independent) 0.86%William B. Hammond (Socialist Labor) 0.33%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=62660 MN Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Missouri William J. Stone Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory Lon Vest Stephens (Democratic) 52.88%Robert E. Lewis (Republican) 46.35%Herman P. Faris (Prohibition) 0.39%J. McDowell Trimble (National Democratic) 0.27%Louis C. Fry (Socialist Labor) 0.11%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263382 MO Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Montana John E. Rickards Republican Lost re-nomination, Democratic victory Robert Burns Smith (Democratic)Smith ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party. 70.99%Alexander C. Botkin (Republican)Botkin ran under a fusion ticket between the Republicans and the Silver Republican Party. 29.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262073 MT Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Nebraska Silas A. Holcomb PopulistHolcomb ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party. Re-elected, 53.46% John H. McColl (Republican) 43.50%Robert S. Bibb (National Democratic) 1.63%Joel Warner (Prohibition) 0.72%Richard H. Hawley (National Prohibition) 0.43%Charles Sadilek (Socialist Labor) 0.27%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265712 NE Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 New Hampshire Charles A. Busiel Republican Retired, Republican victory George A. Ramsdell (Republican) 61.41%Henry O. Kent (Democratic) 35.96%John C. Berry (Prohibition) 1.34%Harry H. Acton (Socialist Labor) 0.61%Gardiner J. Greenleaf (Populist) 0.36%George W. Barnard (National) 0.29%Scattering 0.02%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266671 NH Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 New York Levi P. Morton Republican Retired, Republican victory Frank S. Black (Republican) 55.28%Wilbur E. Porter (Democratic) 40.33%Daniel G. Griffin (National Democratic) 1.87%Howard Balkam (Socialist Labor) 1.29%William W. Smith (Prohibition) 1.22%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=97592 NY Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 North Carolina Elias Carr Democratic Term-limited, Republican victory Daniel Lindsay Russell (Republican) 46.46%Cyrus B. Watson (Democratic) 43.89%William A. Guthrie (Populist) 9.41%James R. Jones (National Prohibition) 0.17%Jeremiah W. Holt (Prohibition) 0.07%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=133687 NC Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 1897 Journal of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, at its Session of 1897 North Carolina Senate Journal https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nc01.ark:/13960/t6252mt0r&view=1up&seq=37 Winston, NC M.I. & J.C. Stewart, Public Printers and Binders 31 North Dakota Roger Allin Republican Lost re-nomination, Republican victory Frank A. Briggs (Republican) 55.61%Robert B. Richardson (Populist)Richardson ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party. 44.39%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266480 ND Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Rhode Island(held, 1 April 1896) Charles W. Lippitt Republican Re-elected, 56.40% George L. Littlefield (Democratic) 33.79%Thomas H. Peabody (Prohibition) 5.84%Edward W. Thienert (Socialist Labor) 2.52%Henry A. Burlingame (Populist) 1.45%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266723 RI Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 South Carolina John Gary Evans Democratic Retired, Democratic victory William Haselden Ellerbe (Democratic) 89.18%Sampson Pope (Lily-White Republican) 6.65%R. M. Wallace (Black and Tan Republican) 4.17%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=40488 SC Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 The final figures https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026853/1896-12-02/ed-1/seq-11/ The Abbeville press and banner Abbeville, SC 2 December 1896 11 18 November 2020 South Dakota Charles H. Sheldon Republican Retired, Populist victory Andrew E. Lee (Populist)Some sources indicate Lee ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party. 49.76%A. O. Ringsrud (Republican) 49.37%J. F. Hanson (Prohibition) 0.87%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266446 SD Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 The count finished https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022137/1896-12-24/ed-1/seq-2/ Union County courier Elk Point, SD 24 December 1896 2 18 November 2020 Tennessee Peter Turney Democratic Retired, Democratic victory Robert Love Taylor (Democratic) 48.76%G. N. Tillman (Republican) 46.62%A. L. Mims (Populist) 3.74%Josephus Hopwood (Prohibition) 0.88%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264753 TN Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Tennessee vote https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89058248/1896-11-26/ed-1/seq-2/ Savannah courier Savannah, TN 26 November 1896 2 18 November 2020 Texas Charles A. Culberson Democratic Re-elected, 55.31% Jerome C. Kearby (Republican) 44.22%Randolph Clark (Prohibition) 0.35%Scattering 0.13%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264398 TX Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 1897 Journal of the Senate of Texas being the regular and first called sessions of the Twenty-Fifth Legislature, begun and held at the City of Austin, Texas, January 12, 1897, and May 21, 1897, respectively Journal of the Senate, State of Texas https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015068359473&view=1up&seq=49 Austin Ben C. Jones & Co., State Printers 39 Vermont(held, 1 September 1896) Urban A. Woodbury Republican Retired, Republican victory Josiah Grout (Republican) 76.41%J. Henry Jackson (Democratic) 21.25%Joseph Battell (Populist) 1.19%Rodney Whittemore (Prohibition) 1.08%Scattering 0.08%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=144156 VT Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Washington John McGraw Republican Retired, Populist victory John Rankin Rogers (Populist)Rogers ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party 55.55%Potter C. Sullivan (Republican) 41.68%Robert E. Dunlap (Prohibition) 2.78%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59230 WA Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 West Virginia William A. MacCorkle Democratic Term-limited, Republican victory George W. Atkinson (Republican) 52.41%Cornelius Clarkson Watts (Democratic) 46.44%T. C. Johnson (Prohibition) 0.67%N. W. Fitzgerald (Populist) 0.40%Scattering 0.08%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265669 WV Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Wisconsin William H. Upham Republican Retired, Republican victory Edward Scofield (Republican) 59.67%Willis C. Silverthorn (Democratic) 38.11%Joshua H. Berkey (Prohibition) 1.83%Christ Tuttrop (Socialist Labor) 0.29%Robert Henderson (National Prohibition) 0.09%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262308 WI Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 See also 1896 United States elections References 30em Notes Bibliography Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books 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, 1861-1911: The Official Results by State and County McFarland 2014 978-0-7864-4722-0 Jefferson, North Carolina The World Almanac and Encyclopedia, 1897 https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1897newy/ New York, NY The Press Publishing Co. 1897 World Almanac 1897 Rhoades Henry Eckford The Tribune Almanac and Political Register, 1897 https://archive.org/details/tribunealmanacpo18961897newy/page/n342/mode/1up New York, NY The Tribune Association 1897 Tribune Almanac 1897 Category:November 1896 in the United States