1900 North Carolina gubernatorial election

none related races 1900 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 September 2023 1900 North Carolina gubernatorial election North Carolina 1885 Presidential no 1896 North Carolina gubernatorial election 1896 1904 North Carolina gubernatorial election 1904 August 2, 1900 File:Picture of Charles Brantley Aycock.jpg 150x150px Charles Brantley Aycock Democratic Party (United States) 186,650 59.57% File:Spencer B. Adams (cropped).png Spencer B. Adams Republican Party (United States) 126,296 40.31% 1900 North Carolina gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 305px County resultsAycock: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90% #0d056c >90%Adams: #E27F7F 50–60% #D75D5D 60–70% #C21B18 80–90% Governor Daniel Lindsay Russell Republican Party (United States) Charles Brantley Aycock Democratic Party (United States) The 1900 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on August 2, 1900. Democratic nominee Charles Brantley Aycock defeated Republican nominee Spencer B. Adams with 59.57% of the vote. The election started a string of 18 consecutive elections in which the Democratic nominee won the Governor's office. The state would not elect another Republican as governor until James E. Holshouser, Jr. won in 1972.Election of 1898 in North Carolina: An Introduction General election The backdrop of the election campaign was the backlash among whites to the relatively large role that African Americans had played in politics during the 1890s, as the coalition (or "Fusion") of Republicans and Populists took power. In 1898, the state Democratic Party won back the majority of seats in the legislature on a platform emphasizing "white supremacy." The resulting legislature then proposed an amendment to the North Carolina Constitution which added a literacy test and a poll tax requirement for voting, amounting to disfranchisement. The state's voters approved the constitutional amendment on the same day as the 1900 gubernatorial election.https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/aycock-charles-brantley NCpedia biography of Charles Brantley Aycock 2020-07-29 2020-08-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20200821092757/https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/aycock-charles-brantley dead https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/suffrage-amendment NCpedia: The Suffrage Amendment July 29, 2020 October 27, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221027170133/https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/suffrage-amendment dead Aycock, who had been a prominent spokesman for Democrats in the 1898 campaign, was unopposed for the Democratic Party nomination for Governor. During the campaign, Aycock emphasized not only white supremacy but also improving the public school system. The Republicans nominated Spencer Adams, an attorney and former North Carolina Superior Court judge.NCpedia biography of Spencer Bell Adams The general election campaign featured a pro-Democratic paramilitary force known as Red Shirts. The party seemed to threaten violence, including a "willingness — in Aycock’s words — to 'rule by force'; only a vote for white supremacy and Black disenfranchisement would restore peace and good order."Carolina Alumni Review: History Commission’s Research of the Names Behind Aycock, Carr, Daniels and Ruffin Candidates Major party candidates Charles Brantley Aycock, Democratic Spencer B. Adams, Republican Other candidates Henry Sheets, Prohibition Results 1900 North Carolina gubernatorial electionhttps://books.google.com/books?id=9CZECwAAQBAJ&pg=1719 Guide to U.S. Elections 24 December 2015 9781483380353 2020-07-18 Kalb Deborah Democratic Party (United States) Charles Brantley Aycock 186,650 59.57% Republican Party (United States) Spencer B. Adams 126,296 40.31% Prohibition Party Henry Sheets 358 0.11% 60,354 Democratic Party (United States) Republican Party (United States) References 1900 North Carolina Gubernatorial