1862 Kansas gubernatorial election

none January 2025 December 2025 ly 1862 Kansas gubernatorial election Kansas Presidential no 1859 Kansas gubernatorial election 1859 1864 Kansas gubernatorial election 1864 November 4, 1862 125px Thomas Carney Republican Party (United States) 10,090 64.87% 125px William Ross Wagstaff Union ff9955 5,463 35.13% 1862 Kansas gubernatorial election results map by county.svg County resultsCarney: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #c21b18 80–90%#A80000 >90% Wagstaff: #FF9955 50–60%#FF6600 70–80%#808080 No Data Governor Charles L. Robinson Republican Party (United States) Thomas Carney Republican Party (United States) A gubernatorial election was held in Kansas on November 4, 1862. The Republican state representative Thomas Carney defeated the Union state representative William R. Wagstaff.Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775–1978 1979 Meckler Books Westport, CT 100–1 https://archive.org/details/americangovernor0000glas/mode/2up The Kansas Republican Party nominated Carney in their state convention held at Topeka from September 17–18, 1862.Wilder Daniel W. The Annals of Kansas 1875 Topeka 322 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Annals_of_Kansas/-o8-AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Carney was an ally of the senior U.S. senator from Kansas and brigadier general Jim Lane, who by 1862 had emerged as the leader of the state Republican Party.Collins Robert Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan 2007 Pelican Publishing Company Gretna, LA 215 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jim_Lane/ljjFkPFVbRgC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Republican opponents of Lane and Carney joined Democrats to organize the Union Party, which held its convention at Lawrence, Kansas on September 29.Wilder, 323. Lane's favor with the national Lincoln administration gave him access to federal patronage with which to bolster the Kansas Republican Party, while the Union Party included Radical Republicans and Democrats critical of the president's wartime policies.Ponce Pearl T. Kansas's War: The Civil War in Documents 2011 Ohio University Press Athens 163–64 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Kansas_s_War/lu9HBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Conventions Republican Party nomination Gubernatorial BallotCandidate1st Thomas Carney42George W. Collamore 22 William A. Phillips 9 Union Party nomination Gubernatorial BallotCandidate1st William R. WagstaffAcclamation Results Kansas gubernatorial election, 1862 Republican Party (United States) Thomas Carney 10,090 64.87 Union #ff9955 William Ross Wagstaff 5,456 35.13 15,546 100.00 Republican Party (United States) References Category:1862 Kansas elections Category:Kansas gubernatorial elections Category:November 1862 in the United States Kansas