1851 Mississippi gubernatorial election

none January 2025 December 2025 ly 1851 Mississippi gubernatorial election presidential 1849 Mississippi gubernatorial election 1849 1853 Mississippi gubernatorial election 1853 no November 4, 1851 125px Henry S. Foote Union Party (United States, 1850) 29,358 50.87% 125px Jefferson Davis Southern Rights Party (US) 28,359 49.13% 1851 Mississippi gubernatorial election results map by county (Southern Rights color).svg 150px County results Foote #fd93a9 50–60% #f6718c 60–70% #ea5774 70–80% Davis #87be51 50–60% #63a61f 60–70% #478e00 70–80% #387100 80–90% Governor James Whitfield Democratic Party (United States) Henry S. Foote Union Party (United States, 1850) The 1851 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1851, in order to elect the Governor of the U.S. state of Mississippi. Democratic US Senator for Mississippi Henry S. Foote, who ran on a Unionist platform, defeated the Southern Rights Party nominee and fellow Democratic US Senator for Mississippi before resigning on September 23, 1851, to run in the gubernatorial election, Jefferson Davis.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10417946109371636?journalCode=rsjc18 Foote versus Davis: The Mississippi election of 1851 tandfonline.com April 1, 2009 10.1080/10417946109371636 2023-05-07 Simonson Walter E. Strange Bennett The Southern Speech Journal 27 2 126–134 subscription General election John A. Quitman had been the original candidate of the "so-called Resistance Party" but "capitalizing on the inflammatory rhetoric of Quitman, the Unionists charged with considerable justification that the governor was plotting secretly with the South Carolinians to destroy the Union." Quitman dropped out in September and handed over the party to Jefferson Davis in hopes of saving the governor's mansion, but two months of campaigning was not enough time to avert a loss.Scarborough William Kauffman Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South 2012 Louisiana State Univ. Press 9780807156001 Baton Rouge 268–270 2003007301 846496079 23668 book Following the controversial Compromise of 1850, Mississippi voters considered this election to be an extension of their approval or disapproval of the compromise. Unionist Democratic Party nominee Henry S. Foote defended the compromise, while Southern Rights Party nominee Jefferson Davis campaigned vigorously against the compromise, suggesting that it put the South at a political disadvantage. Cooper 2000 189 The election was held during a time of increasing sectional tension in the United States; Davis voiced his concern over the alleged infringement of southern constitutional rights by the federal government. https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/89144/RICE0181.pdf?sequence=1 JEFFERSON DAVIS AND THE MISSISSIPPI GUBERNATORIAL CONTEST OF 1851 WITH SELECTED LETTERS AND SPEECHES CONCERNING THE CAMPAIGN scholarship.rice.edu May 1971 2023-05-07 Although he only started his campaign six weeks before election day, Davis was considered the favorite to win the election.The Bar's Tribute. Resolutions Concerning the Death of Henry S. Foote https://www.newspapers.com/image/118845167/?terms=%22Henry%2BS.%2BFoote%22 2023-05-07 The Daily American Nashville, Tennessee May 21, 1880 2 However, on election day, November 4, 1851, Foote won by a margin of 999 votes and would go on to become the 19th Governor of Mississippi.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=233542 MS Governor ourcampaigns.com May 27, 2005 2023-05-07 Meanwhile, Davis turned down an offer from outgoing Governor James Whitfield to be reappointed to his seat in the US senate.Davis 1991 214–217 Davis would go on to serve as the President of the Confederacy during the civil war from 1861 to 1865. Results Mississippi gubernatorial election, 1851 Union Party (United States, 1850) Henry S. Foote 29,358 50.87 Southern Rights Party (US) Jefferson Davis 28,359 49.13 57,717 100.00 Union Party (United States, 1850) Democratic Party (United States) References Works cited Cooper William J. Jr. 2000 Jefferson Davis, American Knopf https://archive.org/details/jeffersondavisam00coop/page/8 registration 978-0-307-77264-0 1035904007 Davis William C. 1991 Jefferson Davis: The Man and his Hour Harpercollins https://archive.org/details/jeffersondavisma00davi registration 0-06-016706-8 1150103061 Category:Mississippi gubernatorial elections Gubernatorial Category:November 1851 Mississippi Category:Jefferson Davis