1848 Wisconsin gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1848 Wisconsin gubernatorial election presidential no 1849 Wisconsin gubernatorial election 1849 May 8, 1848 Nelson Dewey (cropped).jpg Nelson Dewey Democratic Party (United States) 19,538 55.62% John Hubbard Tweedy (cropped).jpg John H. Tweedy Whig Party (United States) 14,449 41.14% 1848 Wisconsin gubernatorial election results map by county.svg x250px County resultsDewey: #7996E2 50–60% #6674DE 60–70% #584CDE 70–80% #3933E5 80–90%Tweedy: #FED463 50–60% Governor Nelson Dewey Democratic Party (United States) The 1848 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on May 8, 1848. This was the election for the first Governor of Wisconsin, which became a U.S. state that year, as it was held concurrent with a public referendum to ratify the Constitution of Wisconsin. Democrat Nelson Dewey, of Grant County, won the election with nearly 56% of the vote. Dewey defeated Whig Party candidate John Hubbard Tweedy, of Milwaukee.Joint Committee on Legislative Organization, Wisconsin Legislature 2015 Wisconsin Blue Book 2015–2016 Madison, Wisconsin Wisconsin Department of Administration 699–701 978-0-9752820-7-6 This is one of only three gubernatorial elections in which Walworth County has voted for a Democrat; it would not do so again until 1920. Democratic Party Nelson Dewey was a prominent lawyer and real-estate investor in Grant County, Wisconsin. He did extensive business with the lead-mining industry, which was a major component of the economy of the Wisconsin Territory. He had been a member of nearly every session of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, first as a member of the Territorial Assembly, from 1838 to 1842, then as a member of the Territorial Council from 1842 to 1846. He served as Speaker of the Territorial Assembly in 1840, and President of the Territorial Council in 1846.http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1882 The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin, 1882 1882 Heg J.E. State of Wisconsin Annals of the legislature 161–171, 175–176 June 15, 2019 Dewey was chosen as a compromise candidate at the Democratic Party Convention after delegates became deadlocked between the lead-mining region's preferred candidate, Hiram Barber, and the eastern region's preferred candidate, Morgan Lewis Martin.http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1960 The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1960 Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau Toepel M. G. Kuehn Hazel L. 1960 Wisconsin's former governors, 1848-1959 73 June 15, 2019 Other candidates Hiram Barber, of Dodge County, was a businessman and investor. He had been a delegate to Wisconsin's first constitutional convention in 1846. Prior to moving to Wisconsin, he had been a Judge in Warren County, New York, for 14 years. Morgan Lewis Martin, of Brown County, had most recently served as President of Wisconsin's second constitutional convention. Prior to this, he had served as the Wisconsin Territory's non-voting representative to the United States House of Representatives for the 29th Congress. He served in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature from 1838 to 1844, and had served in the Michigan Territorial Legislature from 1831 to 1835, when the land which is now Wisconsin was a part of the Michigan Territory. Whig Party John Hubbard Tweedy was, at the time of the 1848 election, the non-voting representative of the Wisconsin Territory to the United States House of Representatives for the 30th Congress. He had been a delegate to Wisconsin's first constitutional convention, and had served in the Wisconsin Territorial Assembly during the second session of the third legislature (Winter of 1841–1842). Independent candidate Charles Durkee was a merchant, and one of the founders of Southport (now Kenosha, Wisconsin). He was a member of the Wisconsin Territorial Assembly for the first legislature (1836 to 1838). General election Results 1848 Wisconsin Gubernatorial ElectionJournal of the Assembly of the First Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, Held at Madison June 5th, A.D. 1848 Appendix "A" Wisconsin State Assembly Madison, Wisconsin Democratic Party (United States) Nelson Dewey 19,538 55.62% Whig Party (United States) John H. Tweedy 14,449 41.14% Independent Charles Durkee 1,134 3.23% Scattering 4 0.01 5,089 14.49% 35,125 100.00% Democratic Party (United States) Results by county County Nelson DeweyDemocratic John H. TweedyWhig Charles DurkeeIndependent ScatteringWrite-in Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # %Brown31169.4213730.5800.0000.00%17438.84448Calumet11363.136636.8700.0000.00%4726.26179Columbia32844.3841155.6200.0000.00%-83-11.23739CrawfordIncludes Chippewa, La Pointe, and St. Croix counties27071.6210728.3800.0000.00%16343.24377Dane1,09858.9475140.31130.7010.05%34718.631,863Dodge1,11659.5570637.67522.7700.00%41021.881,874Fond du Lac62249.0551040.2213610.7300.00%1128.831,268Grant1,19944.921,46754.9630.1100.00%-268-10.042,669Green48153.4440645.11131.4400.00%758.33900IowaIncludes Richland County84753.2074546.8000.0000.00%1026.411,592Jefferson1,15754.8189341.1900.0000.00%36917.612,095Lafayette1,23258.8186341.1900.0000.00%36917.612,095Marquette23045.0125850.49234.5000.00%-28-5.48511Milwaukee2,20163.171,19434.27892.5500.00%1,00728.903,484Portage16051.1215348.8800.0000.00%72.24313Racine1,76554.901,20937.602387.4030.09%55617.293,215Rock1,39448.041,47550.83331.1400.00%-81-2.792,902Sauk18752.9715744.4892.5500.00%308.50353Sheboygan55457.7738440.04212.1900.00%17017.73959Walworth1,47849.121,35645.061755.8200.00%1224.053,009Washington1,59885.8726314.1300.0000.00%1,33571.741,861Waukesha1,19749.8193839.0326811.1500.00%25910.782,403Total19,53855.62%14,44941.14%1,1343.23%40.01%5,08914.49%35,125 Notes References Gubernatorial 1848 Wisconsin Category:1848 in Wisconsin Category:May 1848