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1840 Vermont gubernatorial election Vermont 1837 Presidential no 1839 Vermont gubernatorial election 1839 1841 Vermont gubernatorial election 1841 September 1, 1840 x150px Silas H. Jennison Whig Party (United States) 33,435 59.58% x150px Paul Dillingham Democratic Party (United States) 22,637 40.34% 1840 Vermont gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 220px County resultsJennison: #FED463 50–60% #FE9929 60–70% #EC7014 70–80%Dillingham: #7996E2 50–60% Governor Silas H. Jennison Whig Party (United States) Silas H. Jennison Whig Party (United States)
The 1840 Vermont gubernatorial election was held on September 1, 1840. September 1, 1840 Vermont Election https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015015/1840-09-01/ed-1/seq-3/ The Madisonian Washington City 3 28 January 2022 Incumbent Whig Governor Silas H. Jennison defeated Democratic nominee Paul Dillingham with 59.58% of the vote.
General election
Candidates
Paul Dillingham, Democratic, town clerk of Waterbury, former member of the Vermont House of Representatives 7 August 1891 Hon. Paul Dillingham https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92135562/paul-dillingham/ The Cambridge Transcript Cambridge, Vermont 7 28 January 2022 https://www.nga.org/governor/paul-dillingham/ Gov. Paul Dillingham www.nga.org National Governors Association 28 January 2022
Silas H. Jennison, Whig, incumbent Governor
Results
1840 Vermont gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=144112 VT Governor, 1840 Our Campaigns 28 January 2022 Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 316–317 0-930466-17-9Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County 276 McFarland 2003 978-0-7864-1439-0 Jefferson, North Carolina 1840 Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Vermont, October Session, 1840 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044100176957&view=1up&seq=373&skin=2021 Montpelier E. P. Walton & Sons I https://electionarchive.vermont.gov/data/serve_file_pages_for_item/82823/Election/ Governor: 1789-2016 9 Election Results Archive Office of the Vermont Secretary of State 28 January 2022 Thompson Zadock 1842 History of Vermont, Natural, Civil and Statistical, in Three Parts https://books.google.com/books?id=M6xFv628ziMC&pg=RA1-PA119 Burlington Chauncey Goodrich 119 Coolidge A. J. Mansfield J. B. 1860 History and Description of New England. Vermont https://archive.org/details/historydescrip00cool/page/966/mode/1up?view=theater Boston Austin J. Coolidge 966 Some sources give the result as Jennison 33,653, Dillingham 23,000.Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 1998 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 83 1-56802-396-0 Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. 1977 American State Governors, 1776-1976 I Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Oceana Publications, Inc. 595 0-379-00665-0 The result given here is that given in the Vermont House Journal.
Whig Party (United States) Silas H. Jennison (inc.) 33,435 59.58%
Democratic Party (United States) Paul Dillingham 22,637 40.34%
Scattering 45 0.08%
10,798 19.24%
56,117
Whig Party (United States)
Notes
References
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