1894 United States gubernatorial elections

none January 2025 1894 United States gubernatorial elections United States 1891 legislative no 1893 United States gubernatorial elections 1893 1895 United States gubernatorial elections 1895 Seats up Seats won 28 governorships November 6, 1894Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont held early elections. Republican Party (United States) 16 23 7 12 19 Democratic Party (United States) 25 19 6 13 7 Populist Party (United States) 3 1 2 3 1 Silver Party 0 1 1 0 1 1894 United States gubernatorial elections results map.svg 324px #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold#288b37ff Populist gain #008b8bff Silver gain United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1894, in 28 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 6, 1894 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections). In New York, the governor was elected to a two-year term for the first time, instead of a three-year term. Results State Incumbent Party Status Opposing candidates Alabama(held, 6 August 1894) Thomas G. Jones Democratic Retired, Democratic victory William C. Oates (Democratic) 57.10%Reuben F. Kolb (Populist) 42.90%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262836 AL Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Arkansas(held, 3 September 1894) William Meade Fishback Democratic Retired, Democratic victory James Paul Clarke (Democratic) 58.91%Harmon L. Remmel (Republican) 20.54%David E. Barker (Populist) 19.33%J. W. Miller (Prohibition) 1.22%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265297 AR Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Arkansas Campaign https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058130/1896-09-07/ed-1/seq-1/ The Salt Lake herald Salt Lake City, Utah 7 September 1896 1 18 November 2020 Arkansas Official Vote https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=IJ18960918.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis 18 September 1896 1 18 November 2020 Branam Chris M. Autumn 2010 Another Look at Disfranchisement in Arkansas, 1888—1894 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23046114 The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 69 3 245–262 23046114 18 November 2020 Russell 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 18 November 2020 subscription California Henry Markham Republican Retired, Democratic victory James Budd (Democratic) 39.34%Morris M. Estee (Republican) 38.92%J. V. Webster (Populist) 18.03%Henry French (Prohibition) 3.71%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=122020 CA Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Colorado Davis Hanson Waite Populist Defeated, 41.38% Albert McIntire (Republican) 51.66%Charles S. Thomas (Democratic) 4.61%George Richardson (Prohibition) 2.35%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264791 CO Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020Goldstein Marcia Tremmel Denver Inside and Out https://books.google.com/books?id=Vsa9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT54 Denver, CO Colorado Historical Society Assembling a More Perfect Machine 54 2011 978-0942576559 Ferril Will C. 1911 Sketches of Colorado in four volumes. Being an Analytical Summary and Biographical History of the State of Colorado. I https://archive.org/details/sketchesofcolora00ferrrich/page/46/mode/2up The Western Press Bureau Company Denver, Colorado 47 Ingram Tolbert R. 1929 Year Book of the State of Colorado 1928-1929 https://archive.org/details/yearbookofstateo00stat_9/page/230/mode/2up Denver, CO The Bradford-Robinson Ptg. Co. 231 Connecticut Luzon B. Morris Democratic Retired, Republican victory Owen Vincent Coffin (Republican) 54.18%Ernest Cady (Democratic) 42.77%DeWitt C. Pond (Prohibition) 1.49%Edwin C. Bingham (Populist) 1.00%James F. Tuckey (Socialist Labor) 0.55%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266585 CT Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Delaware Robert J. Reynolds Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory Joshua H. Marvil (Republican) 50.81%Ebe W. Tunnell (Democratic) 47.69%Thomas J. Perry (Prohibition) 1.51%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266274 DE Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Georgia(held, 3 October 1894) William J. Northen Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory William Yates Atkinson (Democratic) 55.54%James K. Hines (Populist) 44.46%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264452 GA Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 The Legislature https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn88054123/1894-10-30/ed-1/seq-4/ The Vienna progress Vienna, GA 30 October 1894 4 18 November 2020 In the Legislature https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053320/1894-10-26/ed-1/seq-1/ The Macon telegraph Macon, GA 26 October 1894 1 18 November 2020 Items of Interest https://newspaperarchive.com/dalton-north-georgia-citizen-nov-01-1894-p-1/ Dalton North Georgia Citizen Dalton, GA 1 November 1894 1 18 November 2020 Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s Garrett Franklin M. 2 294 1969 University of Georgia Press Athens 0-8203-0264-3 https://books.google.com/books?id=7qpif6-Z5o4C&pg=PA294 Idaho William J. McConnell Republican Re-elected, 41.51% James W. Ballantine (Populist) 28.96%Edward A. Stevenson (Democratic) 28.70%Henry C. McFarland (Prohibition) 0.83%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266193 ID Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Kansas Lorenzo D. Lewelling PopulistContemporary sources indicate Lewelling ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party. Defeated, 39.54% Edmund Needham Morrill (Republican) 49.69%David Overmyer (Democratic) 8.93%I. O. Pickering (Prohibition) 1.84%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265550 KS Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 The Kansas City Gazette prints the following https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016014/1895-03-30/ed-1/seq-4/ The Topeka state journal Topeka, Kansas 30 March 1895 4 18 November 2020 Maine(held, 10 September 1894) Henry B. Cleaves Republican Re-elected, 64.32% Charles Fletcher Johnson (Democratic) 28.21%Luther C. Bateman (Populist) 4.94%Ira G. Hersey (Prohibition) 2.52%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266629 ME Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020Compiled by Grenville M. Donham 1900 Maine Register, State Year-Book and Legislative Manual 31 https://books.google.com/books?id=swxFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA123 Portland, Maine 123 Massachusetts Frederic T. Greenhalge Republican Re-elected, 56.45% John E. Russell (Democratic) 36.95%Alfred W. Richardson (Prohibition) 2.97%George H. Cary (Populist) 2.69%David G. Taylor (Socialist Labor) 0.93%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266537 MA Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Michigan John T. Rich Republican Re-elected, 56.89% Spencer O. Fisher (Democratic) 31.37%Alva M. Nichols (Populist) 7.20%Albert M. Todd (Prohibition) 4.51%Scattering 0.04%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=150311 MI Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 The Official Canvas https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/?a=d&d=LuceNN18940104-01.1.4 Newberry News Newberry, Michigan 4 January 1895 4 18 November 2020 Carl Christopher J. 2012 Michigan Manual 2011-2012 Summary of Vote for Governor, 1835-2010 http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(k44qjbpfblenqbndmowkjj4b))/documents/2011-2012/michiganmanual/2011-MM-P0578-p0582.pdf Lansing, MI The Legislative Service Bureau 579 978-1-878210-06-7 The final count https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/452993145/ Livingston County Daily Press and Argus Howell, Michigan 27 December 1894 4 18 November 2020 Minnesota Knute Nelson Republican Re-elected, 49.94% Sidney M. Owen (Populist) 29.67%George Loomis Becker (Democratic) 18.09%Hans S. Hilleboe (Prohibition) 2.31%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=62561 MN Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Minnesota Legislative Manual. Compiled for the Legislature of 2017-2018. https://www.sos.state.mn.us/media/3002/mn-votes_2017.pdf Minnesota Elections Saint Paul, Minnesota Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State 497 2017 Nebraska Lorenzo Crounse Republican Retired, Populist victory Silas A. Holcomb (Populist)Holcomb ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party. 47.98%Thomas Jefferson Majors (Republican) 46.41%P. Sturdevant (Straight-Out Democrat) 3.43%E. A. Gerrard (Prohibition) 2.18%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265711 NE Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Holcomb's plurality https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83040198/1894-11-29/ed-1/seq-3/ Barton County democrat Great Bend, Kansas 29 November 1894 3 18 November 2020 Nevada Roswell K. Colcord Republican November 2020 John Edward Jones (Silver) 49.87%Abner Coburn Cleveland (Republican) 36.87%George Peckham (Populist) 6.79%Theodore Winters (Democratic) 6.47%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=85531 NV Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 New Hampshire John Butler Smith Republican Retired, Republican victory Charles A. Busiel (Republican) 55.98%Henry O. Kent (Democratic) 40.89%Daniel C. Knowles (Prohibition) 2.11%George D. Epps (Populist) 1.00%Scattering 0.03%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266669 NH Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Journals of the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire, January Session, 1895 Journals of the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire at Their Session, Holden at the Capitol in Concord Commencing https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433011445602&view=1up&seq=414 Concord Edward N. Pearson, Public Printer 408 1895 New York Roswell P. Flower Democratic Retired, Republican victory Levi P. Morton (Republican) 52.82%David B. Hill (Democratic) 40.58%Everett P. Wheeler (Reform Democrat) 2.13%Francis E. Baldwin (Prohibition) 1.84%Charles H. Matchett (Socialist Labor) 1.24%Charles B. Matthews (Populist) 0.87%Scattering 0.51%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=147504 NY Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 The Vote of New York https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=ISST18941219.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Indiana State Sentinel Indianapolis 19 December 1894 2 18 November 2020 North Dakota Eli C. D. Shortridge PopulistShortridge ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party. Retired, Republican victory Roger Allin (Republican) 57.49%Elmer D. Wallace (Populist) 22.67%F. M. Kinter (Democratic) 19.84%Some sources mention a fourth candidate called Reeves, but this candidate in fact stood for North Dakota's at-large congressional districthttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266479 ND Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Republican Majorities Average from 5,000 to 6,000 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/606172731/ The Dickinson Press Dickinson, North Dakota 15 December 1894 3 18 November 2020 Complete Returns From All Counties Received at the Office of the Secretary of State https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/81385920/ Bismarck Weekly Tribune Bismarck, North Dakota 14 December 1894 5 18 November 2020 Oregon(held, 4 June 1894) Sylvester Pennoyer Democratic Term limited, Republican victory William Paine Lord (Republican) 47.23%Nathan Pierce (Populist) 29.99%William Galloway (Democratic) 20.51%James Kennedy (Prohibition) 2.26%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263426 OR Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 The Journal of the House of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon for the Eighteenth Regular Session. 1895. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433019341548&view=1up&seq=44&size=125 Salem, Oregon W. H. Leeds, State Printer 34 1895 Pennsylvania Robert E. Pattison Democratic Term limited, Republican victory Daniel H. Hastings (Republican) 60.32%William M. Singerly (Democratic) 34.98%Charles L. Hawley (Prohibition) 2.46%Jerome T. Ailman (Populist) 2.04%Thomas H. Grundy (Socialist Labor) 0.18%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=41266 PA Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Rhode Island(held, 4 April 1894) D. Russell Brown Republican Re-elected, 53.15% David S. Baker (Democratic) 41.28%Henry B. Metcalf (Prohibition) 4.08%Charles G. Baylor (Socialist Labor) 1.08%Henry A. Burlingame (Populist) 0.41%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266721 RI Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 South Carolina Benjamin Tillman Democratic Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory John Gary Evans (Democratic) 69.57%Sampson Pope (Populist) 30.43%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=40492 SC Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 South Dakota Charles H. Sheldon Republican Re-elected, 52.64% Isaac Howe (Populist) 34.63%James A. Ward (Democratic) 11.41%M. H. Alexander (Prohibition) 1.32%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266445 SD Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 The Official Vote https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn00065154/1894-12-14/ed-1/seq-4/ The herald-advance Milbank, S.D. 14 December 1894 4 18 November 2020 South Dakota vote https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99068076/1894-12-15/ed-1/seq-2/ The Kimball graphic Kimball, S.D. 15 December 1894 2 18 November 2020 Tennessee Peter Turney Democratic Re-elected after disputed election (Original result)Henry Clay Evans (Republican) 45.20%Peter Turney (Democratic) 44.87%A. L. Mims (Populist) 9.93%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264752 TN Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020Lewis J. Eugene December 1954 The Tennessee Gubernatorial Campaign and Election of 1894 (Continued) https://www.jstor.org/stable/42621204 Tennessee Historical Quarterly 13 4 301–328 Tennessee Historical Society 42621204 19 November 2020 Johnson Joseph Leland 1965 Congressional Career of Cordell Hull Master of Arts Background, State Politics, Election to the House University of Tennessee Knoxville 5–6 https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/4209 19 November 2020 Moore John Trotwood Foster Austin Powers 1923 Tennessee, The Volunteer State. 1769-1923 II https://archive.org/details/tennesseevolunte02moor/page/240/mode/2up Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 241 Queener Verton M. June 1943 The East Tennessee Republicans in State and Nation, 1870-1900 https://www.jstor.org/stable/42620786 Tennessee Historical Quarterly 2 2 99–128 Tennessee Historical Society 42620786 19 November 2020 Cummings William Joseph 1988 Community, Violence, and the Nature of Change: Whitecapping in Sevier County, Tennessee, During the 1890's Master of Arts "Let not petty jealousies hinder" University of Tennessee Knoxville 46 https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/8 19 November 2020 Tennessee's Vote https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5879&context=sfnm_news Santa Fe Daily New Mexican Santa Fe, N.M. 13 December 1894 1 19 November 2020 General News https://www.emmitsburgchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CR_18941215.pdf The Carroll Record Taneytown, Maryland 15 December 1894 1 19 November 2020 (Result declared by General Assembly)Peter Turney (Democratic) 45.06%Henry Clay Evans (Republican) 43.94%A. L. Mims (Populist) 11.00% Peter Turney Governor https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87080287/1895-05-09/ed-1/seq-4/ Freeland tribune Freeland, Pa. 9 May 1895 4 19 November 2020 It is Peter Turney https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89058007/1895-05-10/ed-1/seq-1/ The Bolivar Bulletin Bolivar, Tenn. 10 May 1895 1 19 November 2020 Peter Turney Governor of Tennessee https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93067853/1895-05-10/ed-1/seq-7/ The Union times Union, S.C. 10 May 1895 7 19 November 2020 Texas Jim Hogg Democratic Retired, Democratic victory Charles A. Culberson (Democratic) 49.01%Thomas L. Nugent (Populist) 36.13%W. K. Makemason (Republican) 12.90%J. B. Schmitz (Lily-White Republican) 1.19%J. M. Dunn (Prohibition) 0.52%Scattering 0.25%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264397 TX Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Returns of an election held Nov. 6, 1894. For Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. Journal of House of Representatives https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433011260027&view=1up&seq=40&size=125 Austin Ben C. Jones & Co. 30 1895 Vermont(held, 4 September 1894) Levi K. Fuller Republican Retired, Republican victory Urban A. Woodbury (Republican) 73.54%George W. Smith (Democratic) 24.38%Thomas S. McGinnis (Populist) 1.28%Rodney Whittemore (Prohibition) 0.79%Scattering 0.02%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=144155 VT Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont. Biennial Session, 1894. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082078514&view=1up&seq=422 St. Albans, VT The Messenger Company Press 416 1895 Wisconsin George Wilbur Peck Democratic Defeated, 37.89% William H. Upham (Republican) 52.24%D. Frank Powell (Populist) 6.82%John F. Cleghorn (Prohibition) 2.99%Scattering 0.05%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262307 WI Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1962 Votes cast for Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidates in General Elections, 1848 to 1960 https://books.google.com/books?id=fMZWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA802 Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library 802 1962 Wyoming John Eugene OsborneOsborne ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party. Democratic November 2020 William A. Richards (Republican) 52.61%William H. Holliday (Democratic) 36.11%Lewis C. Tidball (Populist) 11.28%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263443 WY Governor, 1894 Our Campaigns 18 November 2020 See also 1894 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, 1895 https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1895newy/ New York, NY The Press Publishing Co. 1895 World Almanac 1895 McPherson Edward The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for 1895 https://archive.org/details/tribunealmanacpo1895newy/mode/2up New York, NY The Tribune Association 1895 Tribune Almanac 1895 Category:November 1894 in the United States