1850 Iowa gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1850 Iowa gubernatorial election Iowa Presidential no 1846 Iowa gubernatorial election 1846 1854 Iowa gubernatorial election 1854 August 5, 1850 x150px Stephen P. Hempstead Democratic Party (United States) 13,486 52.94% x100px James L. Thompson Whig Party (United States) 11,403 44.76% 1850 Iowa gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 250px County results Hempstead: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #3933e5 80–90%Thompson: #FEE391 40–50% #FED463 50–60% #CC4C02 80–90%No Data/Votes: #808080 Governor Ansel Briggs Democratic Party (United States) Stephen P. Hempstead Democratic Party (United States) The 1850 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on August 5, 1850. August 7, 1850 The Election https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86083363/1850-08-07/ed-1/seq-2/ The miners' express Dubuque, Iowa 2 19 September 2023 Incumbent Democratic governor Ansel Briggs declined to stand for re-election.https://www.nga.org/governor/ansel-briggs/ Gov. Ansel Briggs National Governors Association 19 September 2023 https://ouriowaheritage.com/iowas-first-governor-ansel-briggs/ Ansel Briggs – The Stagecoach Driver Who Became Governor Our Iowa Heritage 19 September 2023 Democratic nominee Stephen P. Hempstead defeated Whig nominee James L. Thompson and Free Soil nominee William Penn Clark with 52.94% of the vote. General election Candidates William Penn Clark, Free Soil, lawyer, former newspaper editorAldrich Charles 1903–1905 The Annals of Iowa. A Historical Quarterly https://archive.org/details/annalsofiowa06statuoft/ Six Des Moines Historical Department of Iowa 77 https://ouriowaheritage.com/william-penn-clarke/ William Penn Clarke – Iowa City's Abolitionist Our Iowa Heritage 19 September 2023 Stephen P. Hempstead, Democratic, former president of the Iowa Territory Legislative Councilhttps://www.nga.org/governor/stephen-hempstead/ Gov. Stephen Hempstead National Governors Association 19 September 2023 James L. Thompson, Whig, Methodist preacher June 27, 1850 Father Thompson https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014327/1850-06-27/ed-1/seq-4/ Burlington hawk-eye Burlington, Iowa 4 19 September 2023 July 26, 1850 Since "Father Thompson's" nomination https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86081965/1850-07-26/ed-1/seq-2/ Des Moines courier Ottumwa, Iowa 2 19 September 2023 Results 1850 Iowa gubernatorial electionGubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 51 1-56802-396-0 Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County 65–66 McFarland 2003 978-0-7864-1439-0 Jefferson, North Carolina Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. 1977 American State Governors, 1776-1976 I 183 Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Oceana Publications, Inc. 0-379-00665-0 1850 Journal of the Senate of the Third General Assembly of the State of Iowa https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433004422071&seq=35 Iowa City Palmer & Paul State Printers 29 1887 Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington County, Iowa https://archive.org/details/portraitbiographwci00acme/ Chicago Acme Publishing Company 116 Gue Benjamin F. 1903 History of Iowa from the earliest times to the beginning of the twentieth century https://archive.org/details/historyofiowafro01gueb/ I New York City The Century History Company 263 1890 Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Story County, Iowa https://archive.org/details/biographicalhistsc00chic/ Chicago The Goodspeed Publishing Co. 66 Some sources give the result as Thompson's vote as 11,452.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=178079 IA Governor, 1850 Our Campaigns 19 September 2023Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 92–93 0-930466-17-9Brewer Guy S. Jamieson John M. 1907 The Iowa Official Register for the Years 1907-1908 https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/REDBK/860880.pdf Des Moines Emory H. English, State Printer 526 The result given is taken from the Iowa Senate Journal. Democratic Party (United States) Stephen P. Hempstead 13,486 52.94% Whig Party (United States) James L. Thompson 11,403 44.76% Free Soil Party William Penn Clark 575 2.26% Scattering 11 0.04% 2,083 8.18% 25,475 Democratic Party (United States) Notes References 1850 Iowa Gubernatorial Category:August 1850