1863 Kentucky gubernatorial election

none January 2025 January 2025 August 3, 1863 no 1859 1859 Kentucky gubernatorial election 1867 1867 Kentucky gubernatorial election presidential File:Thomas_E._Bramlette_(Kentucky).jpg Thomas E. Bramlette Union Democratic 67,577 79.47% File:Wickliffe_CA.jpg Charles A. Wickliffe Copperhead (politics) 17,458 20.53% File:1863 Kentucky gubernatorial election by county.svg 300px County resultsBramlette: #e66f9e 50–60% #db3577 60–70% #c6175d 70–80% #a60042 80–90% #7e0032 >90%Wickliffe: #8db8e2 50–60% #679fd7 60–70% #4187cd 70–80% #336aa2 80–90% Governor 1863 Kentucky gubernatorial election Union Democratic James Fisher Robinson Union Democratic Thomas E. Bramlette The 1863 Kentucky gubernatorial election took place on August 3, 1863, in order to elect the governor of Kentucky. Union Democratic candidate Thomas Elliot Bramlette won his first term as governorThomas Elliott Bramlette https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-elliott-bramlette/ National Governors Association 27 March 2024 8 December 2015 against Peace Democratic candidate Charles A. Wickliffe.https://books.google.com/books?id=WYJAIOabIPgC United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911 The Official Results by State and County Michael J. Dubin 2014 2 McFarland 9780786456468 According to the Kentucky Historical Society, the election had considerable Union military interference,Lincoln Lore – Thomas E. Bramlette https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/LegislativeMoments/moments08RS/50_web_leg_moments.htm Kentucky's Abraham Lincoln Kentucky Historical Society 27 March 2024 since some supporters of Wickliffe were imprisoned for allegedly harboring Confederate sympathies.Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867) · Civil War Governors of Kentucky http://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/thomas-e-bramlette-1863-1867 Civil War Governors of Kentucky Kentucky Historical Society 27 March 2024 Candidates Union Democratic Party Thomas E. Bramlette, who served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Kentucky; colonel and commander of the 3rd Kentucky Infantry; judge of Kentucky's Sixth Judicial District from 1856 to 1862; and commonwealth attorney of Kentucky from 1849 to 1851. The Union Democratic Party originally nominated Joshua F. Bell, who withdrew after the party convention. Peace Democratic Party Charles A. Wickliffe, who served as a member of United States House of Representatives for Kentucky from 1823 to 1833 and from 1860 to 1863; United States Postmaster General from 1841 to 1845 in the Tyler administration; and former lieutenant governor of Kentucky from 1836 to 1839 under James Clark and governor of Kentucky after Clark's death in office, until 1840.Charles A. Wickliffe (1841–1845) Miller Center https://millercenter.org/president/tyler/essays/wickliffe-1841-postmaster-general University of Virginia Miller Center Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia 27 March 2024 en 4 October 2016Charles Anderson Wickliffe https://www.nga.org/governor/charles-anderson-wickliffe/ National Governors Association 27 March 2024 8 December 2015 Election Statewide 1863 Kentucky gubernatorial election Union Democratic Unionist politician (American Civil War) Thomas E. Bramlette 67,577 79.5 Copperhead (politics) Charles A. Wickliffe 17,458 20.5 85,035 100.00 Union Democratic Unionist politician (American Civil War) References Category:Kentucky gubernatorial elections Category:1863 United States gubernatorial elections Category:1863 Kentucky elections Category:August 1863 in the United States