1849 Wisconsin gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1849 Wisconsin gubernatorial election presidential 1848 Wisconsin gubernatorial election 1848 1851 Wisconsin gubernatorial election 1851 November 6, 1849 Nelson Dewey (cropped).jpg Nelson Dewey Democratic Party (United States) 16,649 52.42% Collins alexander l 1880 Crop.png Alexander L. Collins Whig Party (United States) 11,317 35.63% Warren P. Chase Ambrotype Crop.jpg Warren Chase Free Soil Party 3,761 11.84% 1849 Wisconsin gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 250px County resultsDewey: #7996E2 50–60% #6674DE 60–70% #584CDE 70–80% Collins: #FEE391 40–50% #FED463 50–60% Chase: #d4dcaf 30–40% Governor Nelson Dewey Democratic Party (United States) Nelson Dewey Democratic Party (United States) The 1849 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1849. Democrat Nelson Dewey won the election with 52% of the vote, winning his second term as Governor of Wisconsin. Dewey defeated Whig Party candidate Alexander L. Collins and Free Soil Party candidate Warren Chase.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 was the second Wisconsin gubernatorial election, and the first election for a full two-year gubernatorial term. Nominations Democratic party Nelson Dewey was the incumbent governor, having been elected in the 1848 election. He 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 Other candidates Although Dewey was renominated on the first ballot, two other names were placed in candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination at the 1849 State Democratic Convention, held in Madison: Harrison Carroll Hobart, of Sheboygan, was a state senator and prominent lawyer. He had also served in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives. William Rudolph Smith, of Mineral Point, had been a colonel in the War of 1812 and served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly before moving to the Wisconsin Territory. In Wisconsin, he negotiated an important treaty with the Chippewa, obtaining a portion of their land, and had been a delegate to Wisconsin's first constitutional convention. Nomination 1849 Wisconsin Democratic convention https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56827988/wisconsin-democratic-convention-1849/ Proceedings of the Democratic State Convention Wisconsin Argus Madison, Wisconsin September 18, 1849 2 August 6, 2020 Newspapers.com | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #eaecf0;"| Vote of the Wisconsin Democratic Convention, September 6, 1849 Democratic Party (United States) Nelson Dewey (incumbent) 37 58.73% Democratic Party (United States) Harrison Carroll Hobart 13 20.63% Democratic Party (United States) William Rudolph Smith 11 17.46% Blank 1 1.59% 24 38.09% 63 100.0% Whig party Alexander L. Collins was a prominent lawyer in Madison. At the time of the 1849 election, he was a member of the first Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin. He had been the Whig Party candidate for United States Congress in the 2nd congressional district in 1848. He also served in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature from 1846 until the territorial government was replaced by the state government in 1848.Reed Parker McCobb https://archive.org/details/benchandbarwisc01reedgoog The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin P. M. Reed 1882 105, 106 June 17, 2019 Free Soil party Warren Chase was, at the time of the 1849 election, a member of the Wisconsin State Senate, having been elected on the Democratic Party ticket in 1848. He represented Fond du Lac and Winnebago counties. Chase was an abolitionist and temperance advocate, and was one of only three delegates to attend both the first and second Wisconsin constitutional conventions. Chase was also notable for his fourierist beliefs, having participated in the founding of the Wisconsin phalanx (commune) at Ceresco, Wisconsin. Results Wisconsin Gubernatorial Election, 1849The Wisconsin Almanac and Annual Register for the Year 1856 Votes Cast for Governor Wisconsin Secretary of State Milwaukee, Wisconsin https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxipey&seq=69 Democratic Party (United States) Nelson Dewey (incumbent) 16,649 52.42% -3.20pp Whig Party (United States) Alexander L. Collins 11,317 35.63% -5.50pp Free Soil Party Warren Chase 3,761 11.84% Scattering 32 0.10% 5,332 16.79% +2.3pp 31,759 100.00% -9.58% Democratic Party (United States) Results by county County Nelson DeweyDemocratic Alexander L. CollinsWhig Warren ChaseFree Soil ScatteringWrite-in Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # %Brown28161.76%17137.58%30.66%00.00%11024.18%455Calumet13553.36%11746.25%10.40%00.00%187.11%253Columbia41047.79%43250.35%161.86%00.00%-22-2.56%858Crawford15282.61%3217.39%00.00%00.00%12065.22%184Dane66643.67%75949.77%865.64%140.92%-93-6.10%1,525Dodge1,25560.31%71434.31%1125.38%00.00%54126.00%2,081Fond du Lac64051.24%38931.14%22017.61%00.00%25120.10%1,249Grant1,03047.93%1,10351.33%160.74%00.00%-73-3.40%2,149Green44355.38%32440.50%263.25%70.88%11914.88%800Iowa68851.00%65548.55%60.44%00.00%332.45%1,349Jefferson89752.58%64938.04%1589.26%20.12%24814.54%1,706Lafayette1,09472.45%41627.55%00.00%00.00%67844.90%1,510Marquette25940.72%24738.84%13020.44%00.00%121.89%636Milwaukee2,10871.05%71824.20%1414.75%00.00%1,39046.85%2,967Portage28752.47%25947.35%10.18%00.00%285.12%547Racine76132.03%71630.13%89937.84%00.00%-138-5.81%2,376Rock60426.11%1,16850.50%54123.39%00.00%-564-24.38%2,313Sauk35560.79%22638.70%30.51%00.00%12922.09%584Sheboygan63565.87%32233.40%70.73%00.00%31332.47%964St. Croix5670.89%2126.58%00.00%22.53%3544.30%79Walworth64630.44%66731.43%80637.98%30.14%-139Chase's margin over Collins-6.54%2,122Washington1,61084.38%20810.90%864.51%40.21%1,40273.48%1,908Waukesha1,31955.94%66928.37%37015.69%00.00%65027.57%2,358Winnebago31840.46%33542.62%13316.92%00.00%-17-2.16%786Total16,64952.42%11,31735.63%3,76111.84%320.10%5,33216.79%31,759 Counties that flipped from Whig to Democratic Marquette Counties that flipped from Democratic to Whig Dane Counties that flipped from Democratic to Free Soil Racine Walworth Notes References Gubernatorial 1849 Wisconsin Category:1849 in Wisconsin Category:November 1849