1811 Virginia gubernatorial special election

none January 2025 December 2025 ly File:Flag of the United States (1795-1818).svg 1811 Virginia gubernatorial special election Virginia Presidential no 1810 Virginia gubernatorial election 1810 1811 Virginia gubernatorial election 1811 January 16, 1811 150x150px 1st ballot File:James Monroe by John Vanderlyn (cropped).jpg James Monroe Democratic-Republican Party 129 File:George William Smith Governor of Virginia (3x4 cropped).jpg George W. Smith c0c0c0 58 Governor George W. Smith (acting) Democratic-RepublicanKallenbach and Kallenbach list Smith as a Jeffersonian Republican,Kallenbach Kallenbach 1977 613 while Sobel and Raimo do not indicate a party.Sobel Raimo 1978 1629–30 James Monroe Democratic-Republican Party A gubernatorial special election was held in Virginia on January 16, 1811.Virginia n.d. 69 The Democratic-Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Charlottesville James Monroe defeated the acting governor of Virginia George W. Smith.Lampi 2012 The previous governor John Tyler Sr. resigned on January 15, 1811, to accept an appointment as judge of the United States District Court for the District of Virginia. Monroe had previously served as governor from 1799 to 1802 and later as U.S. minister to Great Britain.Sobel Raimo 1978 1629, 1626 Upon his return to the United States in 1807, he emerged as a leader of the Tertium quids political faction and a rival to the U.S. secretary of state James Madison for leadership of the Democratic-Republican Party. His return to the legislature in 1810 and subsequent bid for governor was part of a strategy to reingratiate himself with Virginia Democratic-Republicans following his unsuccessful challenge to Madison in the 1808 United States presidential election. Leaders of the Richmond Junto were initially skeptical of Monroe's candidacy, preferring to nominate the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates James Barbour. In a letter to John Taylor of Caroline, subsequently circulated to the members of the legislature, Monroe affirmed his loyalty to Madison's administration while reserving the right to dissent with regard to specific policies. While this statement was less than the Junto leaders had sought, it was enough to alleviate most of their concerns.Ammon 1971 272–73, 282, 285 The election was conducted by the Virginia General Assembly in joint session. Monroe was elected with a majority on the first ballot.Lampi 2012 General election + 1811 Virginia gubernatorial special electionLampi 2012 Party Candidate First ballot Count Percent Democratic-Republican James Monroe 129 65.48 colspan=2 George W. Smith 58 29.44 Others 10 5.08 Total 197 100.00 Notes Bibliography Ammon Harry James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity 1971 McGraw Hill Book Company New York https://archive.org/details/jamesmonroequest00ammo Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. American State Governors, 1776–1976 1 1977 Oceana Publications Dobbs Ferry, NY https://archive.org/details/americanstategov0000kall Lampi Philip J. Virginia 1811 Governor, Special https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/k643b211g A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society 2025-10-23 2012 Sobel Robert Raimo John Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States 1789–1978 4 1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT https://archive.org/details/biographicaldire0004unse Virginia Journal of the House of Delegates [...] n.d. none Richmond https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433014925295&seq=1 collapsed Gubernatorial Category:Virginia gubernatorial elections Virginia Category:January 1811 Virginia 1811 Category:James Monroe Category:Virginia special elections Category:Indirect gubernatorial elections in the United States