1873 Mississippi gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1873 Mississippi gubernatorial election presidential 1869 Mississippi gubernatorial election 1869 1877 Mississippi gubernatorial election 1877 no November 4, 1873 File:Adelbert Ames.png 150x150px Adelbert Ames Republican Party (United States) 73,324 58.11% File:JLAlcorn.jpg James L. Alcorn Liberal Republican Party (United States) 52,857 41.89% 1873 Mississippi gubernatorial election results map by county (Lib Rep color).svg 150px County resultsAmes: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #c21b18 80–90% #a80000 >90%Alcorn: #e988ba 50–60% #e05ba0 60–70%#ce2f81 70–80% #aa1562 80–90% #800f49 >90% Governor Ridgley C. Powers Republican Party (United States) Adelbert Ames Republican Party (United States) The 1873 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1873, in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. This election marked the last time a Republican was elected Governor of Mississippi until 1991, 118 years later. General election In the general election, Republican Adelbert Ames, a U.S. Senator who previously served as governor from 1868 until 1870, defeated James L. Alcorn, also a U.S. Senator and former governor. Alcorn's estrangement from Ames, his northern-born colleague, deepened in 1871, as African-Americans became convinced that Alcorn was not taking the problem of white terrorism seriously enough; and, in fact, Alcorn resisted Federal action to suppress the Ku Klux Klan, contending that state authorities were sufficient to handle the task. By 1873 the quarrel had deepened into an intense animosity. Both men ran for governor. Ames was supported by the Radicals and most African Americans, while Alcorn won the votes of conservative whites and most of the scalawags. Ames won by a vote of 73,324 to 52,857. Alcorn withdrew from active politics in the state, emerging to assail the new governor as incapable and an enemy of the people of Mississippi. Results Mississippi gubernatorial election, 1873Glashan Roy R. https://archive.org/details/americangovernor0000glas/page/168/mode/2up American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 168–169 Republican Party (United States) Adelbert Ames 73,324 58.11 Liberal Republican Party (United States) James L. Alcorn 52,857 41.89 126,181 100.00 Republican Party (United States) References 1873 gubernatorial Mississippi Category:November 1873 in the United States