1864 Kansas gubernatorial election

none January 2025 December 2025 ly 1864 Kansas gubernatorial election Kansas Presidential no 1862 Kansas gubernatorial election 1862 1866 Kansas gubernatorial election 1866 November 8, 1864 125px Samuel J. Crawford Republican Party (United States) 13,387 61.31% 125px Solon O. Thacher Union ff9955 8,448 38.69% 1864 Kansas gubernatorial election results map by county.svg County resultsCrawford: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #c21b18 80–90% Thacher: #FF9955 50–60% #FF6600 60–70% #D45500 >90%#808080 No Data Governor Thomas Carney Republican Party (United States) Samuel J. Crawford Republican Party (United States) A gubernatorial election was held in Kansas on November 8, 1864. The Republican colonel of the 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment Samuel J. Crawford defeated the Union judge of the U.S. district court for the District of Kansas Solon O. Thacher.Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775–1978 1979 Meckler Books Westport, CT 100–1 https://archive.org/details/americangovernor0000glas/mode/2up The Union Party was organized in 1862 by opponents of U.S. Senator Jim Lane to contest the 1862 state elections.Ponce Pearl T. Kansas's War: The Civil War in Documents 2011 Ohio University Press Athens 163–64 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Kansas_s_War/lu9HBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 In 1864 the party was divided between supporters of Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, and John C. Fremont in the upcoming presidential election. When the Union State Convention convened at Topeka on September 13, Democratic and Anti-Lane Republicans met separately to nominate presidential tickets in support of McClellan and Lincoln, respectively; the two groups then reconvened in a joint session and nominated a single statewide ticket with Thacher as the gubernatorial candidate.Crawford Samuel J. Kansas in the Sixties 1911 A. C. McClurg & Co. Chicago 201 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Kansas_in_the_Sixties/Ge1BAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Some Radical Republicans in the Union Party were dissatisfied with Lincoln and initially refused to support the Union presidential ticket; these individuals appointed delegates to attend the national convention of the Radical Democratic Party in Cincinnati in hopes of replacing Lincoln with a more acceptable candidate.Ponce, 164. Results Kansas gubernatorial election, 1864 Republican Party (United States) Samuel J. Crawford 13,387 61.31 Union Solon O. Thacher #ff9955 8,448 38.69 21,835 100.00 Republican Party (United States) References Category:1864 Kansas elections Category:Kansas gubernatorial elections Category:November 1864 in the United States Kansas