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1813 Connecticut gubernatorial election Connecticut presidential no 1812 Connecticut gubernatorial election 1812 1814 Connecticut gubernatorial election 1814 April 12, 1813 120px John Cotton Smith Federalist Party (United States) 11,893 59.12% 100px Elijah Boardman Democratic-Republican Party (United States) 7,201 35.80% 220px 220px County results
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The 1813 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on April 12, 1813. April 27, 1813 Northern Elections https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024014/1813-04-27/ed-1/seq-3/ Alexandria gazette, commercial and political Alexandria, Va. 3 17 December 2021
Federalist Lieutenant Governor John Cotton Smith had become acting Governor on the death of Governor Roger Griswold on October 25, 1812. Smith was elected to a term in his own right, defeating Democratic-Republican nominee Elijah Boardman.
General election
Candidates
Elijah Boardman, Democratic-Republican, former member of the Connecticut House of Representatives,http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000577 BOARDMAN, Elijah, (1760 - 1823) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress United States Senate 2009-07-26 Democratic-Republican nominee for Governor in 1812
John Cotton Smith, Federalist, acting Governor
Results
1813 Connecticut gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=217885 CT Governor, 1813 Our Campaigns 17 December 2021Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 38–39 0-930466-17-9Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 1998 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 44 1-56802-396-0 Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County McFarland 2003 17 978-0-7864-1439-0 Jefferson, North Carolina Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. 1977 American State Governors, 1776-1976 I Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Oceana Publications, Inc. 93 0-379-00665-0 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Connecticut 1813 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 17 December 2021 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/tq57ns055 May 24, 1813 Hartford, (Con.) May 17. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024014/1813-05-24/ed-1/seq-2/ Alexandria gazette, commercial and political Alexandria, Va. 2 17 December 2021
Federalist Party (United States) John Cotton Smith (incumbent) 11,893 59.12%
Democratic-Republican Party (United States) Elijah Boardman 7,201 35.80%
ScatteringContemporary newspapers list the scattering votes as Federalist. Chauncey Goodrich appears to have received the major share of them and he is often credited by 20th Century sources with these votes. Goodrich was a candidate in the concurrent election for Lieutenant Governor. 1,023 5.08%
4,692 23.32%
20,117
Federalist Party (United States)
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