1864 Rhode Island gubernatorial election

none January 2025 December 2025 ly 1864 Rhode Island gubernatorial election United States 1863 Presidential no 1863 Rhode Island gubernatorial election 1863 1865 Rhode Island gubernatorial election 1865 April 3, 1864 150x150px File:GovJamesYSmithRI.jpg James Y. Smith National Union Party (United States) 8,836 50.50% File:George Huntington Browne.jpg George H. Browne Democratic Party (United States) 7,312 41.79% File:Providence mayor Amos Barstow engraving.jpg Amos C. Barstow Independent Union 1,348 7.71% 1864 Rhode Island gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 250px County resultsSmith: #FFB2B2 40–50% #E27F7F 50–60% #D75D5D 60–70%Browne: #A5B0FF 40–50% Governor James Y. Smith Republican Party (United States) James Y. Smith National Union Party (United States) A gubernatorial election was held in Rhode Island on April 3, 1864. The National Union incumbent governor James Y. Smith defeated the Democratic former U.S. representative from Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district George H. Browne and the Independent Union former mayor of Providence Amos C. Barstow.Dubin 2014 3 Smith, a Radical Republican, was elected in 1863 with the support of the former governor William Sprague IV, who persuaded his coalition of conservatives and War Democrats to back the Republican candidate against his Democratic and Constitutional Union challenger, William C. Cozzens.Smith 2006 90 Smith's re-election became embroiled in the campaign for the National Union presidential nomination when supporters of Sprague's father-in-law, the U.S. treasury secretary Salmon P. Chase, secured his endorsement by the National Union state convention. Supporters of the incumbent president Abraham Lincoln deserted Smith in favor of Barstow, who ran as an Independent Unionist. Many of Sprague's former conservative allies broke with him to support Browne, a War Democrat and a colonel in the Union Army.Dell 1975 291 DeSimone Schofield 2015 Figs. 1-292, 1-293, 1-294, 1-295 General election 1864 Rhode Island gubernatorial electionDubin 2014 3 National Union Party (United States) James Y. Smith (incumbent) 8,836 50.50 Democratic Party (United States) George H. Browne 7,312 41.79 Independent Union #cc6666 Amos C. Barstow 1,348 7.71 17,496 100.00 National Union Party (United States) Republican Party (United States) Notes Bibliography Dell Christopher Lincoln and the War Democrats: The Grand Erosion of Conservative Tradition 1975 Farleigh Dickenson University Press Rutherford, NJ https://archive.org/details/lincolnwardemocr0000dell DeSimone Russel J. Schofield Daniel C. October 2015 Rhode Island Election Tickets: A Survey https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/56696737.pdf Kingston, RI University of Rhode Island Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861–1911: The Official Results by State and County 2014 McFarland and Company Jefferson, NC 978-0-7864-5646-8 https://www.google.com/books/edition/United_States_Gubernatorial_Elections_18/WYJAIOabIPgC Smith Adam I. P. No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North 2006 Oxford University Press New York 978-0-19-534596-4 https://books.google.com/books?id=M8BL9i0Gn2sC Category:1864 Rhode Island elections Category:Rhode Island gubernatorial elections Category:1864 United States gubernatorial elections Category:April 1864 in the United States