1896 Arkansas gubernatorial election

none related races 1896 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 September 2023 1896 Arkansas gubernatorial election Arkansas 1896 Presidential no 1894 Arkansas gubernatorial election 1894 1898 Arkansas gubernatorial election 1898 September 7, 1896 File:Daniel Webster Jones (governor).jpg 150x150px Daniel W. Jones Democratic Party (United States) 91,114 64.26% File:Harmon L. Remmel (cropped).png Harmon L. Remmel Republican Party (United States) 35,836 25.27% File:A. W. Files - 1881 Arkansas House of Representatives.png Abner W. Files People's Party (United States) 13,990 9.87% 1896 Arkansas gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 200px County resultsJones: #BDD3FF 30–40% #A5B0FF 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90%Remmel: #E27F7F 50–60%Files: #AFE9AF 40–50% Governor James Paul Clarke Democratic Party (United States) Daniel W. Jones Democratic Party (United States) The 1896 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 7, 1896. Incumbent Democratic Governor James Paul Clarke did not stand for re-election, but instead ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_arkansas/col2-content/main-content-list/title_clarke_james.html Arkansas Governor James Paul Clarke National Governors Association August 17, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120118200757/http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_arkansas/col2-content/main-content-list/title_clarke_james.html January 18, 2012 dead Democratic nominee Daniel W. Jones defeated Republican nominee Harmon L. Remmel and Populist nominee Abner W. Files with 64.26% of the vote. General election Candidates Daniel W. Jones, Democratic, former Attorney General of Arkansas Harmon L. Remmel, Republican, candidate for Governor in 1894Russell Marvin F. Autumn 1977 The Rise of a Republican Leader: Harmon L. Remmel https://www.jstor.org/stable/40018534 The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 36 3 234–257 10.2307/40018534 40018534 23 September 2021 subscription Abner W. Files, Populist, former Arkansas State Auditor September 7, 1896 Large Vote in Arkansas https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024441/1896-09-07/ed-1/seq-1/ The evening times Washington, D.C. 1 23 September 2021 September 11, 1896 Hurrah for Arkansas! https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89060092/1896-09-11/ed-1/seq-4/ The citizen Frederick City, Md. 4 23 September 2021 J. W. Miller, Prohibition, candidate for Governor in 1894 Results 1896 Arkansas gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265298 AR Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 23 September 2021Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 41 1-56802-396-0 Dubin Michael J. 2010 United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911 https://books.google.com/books?id=WYJAIOabIPgC&pg=PA10 20 Jefferson, NC McFarland & Co. 978-0-7864-4722-0 Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 20–21 0-930466-17-9Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. 1977 American State Governors, 1776-1976 I 60 Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Oceana Publications, Inc. 0-379-00665-0Mark Martin Mark Martin (politician) Historical Report of the Secretary of State 2018 978-0-692-03553-5 https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/uploads/education/2018_Historical_Report.pdf 404 Little Rock, Arkansas Arkansas Secretary of State's Office 17 September 2021 Arkansas Official Vote https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=IJ18960918.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis 18 September 1896 1 23 September 2021 1897 Journal of the Senate of Arkansas. Thirty-First Session https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112118492583&view=1up&seq=20&skin=2021 Little Rock Little Rock Printing Company, State Printers 12 The various sources give slightly differing votes for the various candidates. The result given here is that given in the Arkansas Senate Journal. Democratic Party (United States) Daniel W. Jones 91,114 64.26% +5.35% Republican Party (United States) Harmon L. Remmel 35,836 25.27% +4.73% People's Party (United States) Abner W. Files 13,990 9.87% -9.46% Prohibition Party J. W. Miller 851 0.60% -0.62% 55,278 38.99% 141,791 Democratic Party (United States) Notes References 1896 Arkansas Gubernatorial Category:September 1896 in the United States