1865 Tennessee gubernatorial election

none January 2025 January 2025 1865 Tennessee gubernatorial election Tennessee presidential no 1863 Tennessee gubernatorial election 1863 (CSA) 1867 Tennessee gubernatorial election 1867 March 4, 1865 150x150px File:William Gannaway Brownlow-cropped.jpg Parson Brownlow Unconditional Union Party 23,352Results Dubin gives Brownlow 22,814 votes and does not mention other votes. 99.85% 1865 Tennessee gubernatorial election results map by county.svg County resultsBrownlow: #850400 >90%#808080 No votes Governor Edward H. East Nonpartisan politician Parson Brownlow Unconditional Union Party The 1865 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on March 4, 1865, to elect the next governor of Tennessee. The Unconditional Union candidate Parson Brownlow was elected virtually without opposition.Dubin 2014 3 Coulter 1999 261 Incumbent Democratic governor Andrew Johnson was appointed by Abraham Lincoln on March 12, 1862, as a military governor. Johnson's Unionist government emerged following a series of Union military victories that reclaimed most of Tennessee.Miscamble Miscamble 1978 309–10 Johnson was subsequently elected vice president on the National Union ticket, succeeding Lincoln's first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin.McKinney 1978 28 He appointed Edward H. East to serve as acting governor between his inauguration as vice president on March 4, 1865 and the scheduled inauguration of the elected governor.Graf Haskins 1979 245 Delegates of the Unconditional Union Party nominated Brownlow for governor during their convention in Nashville on January 14, 1865. Johnson's Ironclad Oath had effectively disenfranchised pro-Confederate citizens, and other potential Unionists candidates declined to challenge Brownlow.McKinney 1978 28 Miscamble Miscamble 1978 318n53, 313, 319–20 Brownlow faced only token opposition in the general election, receiving all but 35 votes out of more than 23,000 cast.Coulter 1999 261 The number of votes cast met the threshold established under the ten percent plan, which allowed states of the former Confederacy to form new civilian governments when the number of loyal citizens, defined as those who would swear an oath of loyalty to the national government, equalled or exceeded 10 percent of those who had voted in that state in the 1860 United States presidential election.Foner 2014 35 Tennessee was thus readmitted to representation in the United States Congress in 1866 without having to undergo Congressional Reconstruction.Alexander 1969 47–48 General election 1865 Tennessee gubernatorial electionDubin 2014 3 Coulter 1999 261Results Unconditional Union Party Parson Brownlow 23,352 99.85 35 0.15% 23,387 100.00 Notes Bibliography Alexander Thomas B. Curry Richard Orr Radicalism, Racism, and Party Realignment: The Border States during Reconstruction Johns Hopkins Press Baltimore 1969 37–79 Political Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1865–1870 https://archive.org/details/radicalismracism0000unse_o8g5/page/36/mode/2up Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861–1911: The Official Results by State and County 2014 McFarland & Company Jefferson, NC https://www.google.com/books/edition/United_States_Gubernatorial_Elections_18/WYJAIOabIPgC Coulter E. Merton William G. Brownlow: Fighting Parson of the Southern Highlands 1999 University of Tennessee Press Knoxville https://archive.org/details/williamgbrownlow0000coul Graf Leroy P. Haskins Ralph S. The Papers of Andrew Johnson 5, 1861–1862 1979 University of Tennessee Press Knoxville https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Papers/-pWn6WXtgiwC Foner Eric Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–77 2014 HarperPerennial New York Revised 978-0-06-235451-8 https://archive.org/details/reconstructionam0000fone_q8w6 McKinney Gordon B. Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865–1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community 1978 University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill https://archive.org/details/southernmountain0000mcki Miscamble Wilson D. Miscamble William G. Andrew Johnson and the Election of William G. ("Parson") Brownlow As Governor or Tennessee Tennessee Historical Quarterly Fall 1978 37 3 308–20 https://www.jstor.org/stable/42625880 Category:Tennessee gubernatorial elections Tennessee Gubernatorial Category:March 1865 in the United States