1906 Tennessee gubernatorial election

none related races 1906 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 September 2023 1906 Tennessee gubernatorial election Tennessee Presidential no 1904 Tennessee gubernatorial election 1904 1908 Tennessee gubernatorial election 1908 November 6, 1906 File:Patterson-malcolm-governor-tn2.jpg 150x150px Malcolm R. Patterson Democratic Party (United States) 111,876 54.42% File:Portrait of Henry Clay Evans (3x4a).jpg Henry Clay Evans Republican Party (United States) 92,804 45.14% 1906 Tennessee gubernatorial election results map by county.svg County resultsPatterson: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90% #0D0596 >90%Evans: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #c21b18 80–90% #a80000 >90% Governor John I. Cox Democratic Party (United States) Malcolm R. Patterson Democratic Party (United States) The 1906 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Following the death of Senator William B. Bate in March 1905, governor James B. Frazier quickly convened the General Assembly and had himself elected to the vacant Senate seat. John I. Cox, who as speaker of the state senate was Frazier's constitutional successor (and who helped engineer Frazier's election in the General Assembly), then became governor. Malcolm R. Patterson narrowly defeated governor Cox for the Democratic nomination. In the general election, Patterson defeated Republican nominee Henry Clay Evans with 54.42% of the vote. Evans also ran for governor in 1894, but narrowly lost. In April 1905, a few weeks after Cox took office, the current Flag of Tennessee, designed by Colonel LeRoy Reeves of Johnson City, was adopted.John Isaac Cox Papers Finding Aid – Biographical Sketch https://web.archive.org/web/20130712212048/http://www.tn.gov/tsla/history/govpapers/findingaids/gp34.pdf July 12, 2013, Tennessee State Library and Archives, 2000. Retrieved: November 29, 2012. Background Former governor Robert Love Taylor, who had long aspired to a seat in the U.S. Senate, was outraged by Frazier's maneuvering to secure the vacant Senate position for himself. Taylor accused James B. Frazier, along with John I. Cox and Senator Edward W. Carmack, of conspiring to control the Democratic Party.Phillip Langsdon, Tennessee: A Political History (Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press, 2000), pp. 245–263. Sensing the party's frustration with Cox over the Frazier election, Malcolm R. Patterson decided to challenge Cox for the party's nomination for governor in 1906. At the party's convention in late May, as Patterson and Cox battled for delegates, a rule change allotted Patterson all of the delegates from Davidson County, allowing him to clinch the nomination. Cox was furious, and refused to support Patterson in the general election. Patterson's Republican opponent, Henry Clay Evans, had been gerrymandered out of Congress in 1890, and had long accused state Democrats of fraudulent tactics. Patterson criticized Evans for his support of the Lodge Bill, which would have provided protections for black voters, and suggested that Evans wanted to empower the state's African-American population. On election day, Patterson won with 111,876 votes to 92,804 for Evans. General election Candidates Major party candidates Malcolm R. Patterson, Democratic Henry Clay Evans, Republican Other candidates John M. Ray, Socialist Results 1906 Tennessee gubernatorial electionhttps://books.google.com/books?id=nqAaAQAAMAAJ Guide to U.S. elections - CQ Press, Congressional Quarterly, inc 2005 CQ Press 9781568029818 2020-09-06 Democratic Party (United States) Malcolm R. Patterson (incumbent) 111,876 54.42% Republican Party (United States) Henry Clay Evans 92,804 45.14% Socialist Party USA John M. Ray 900 0.44% 19,072 Democratic Party (United States) References 1906 Tennessee Gubernatorial Category:November 1906 in the United States