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1828 Vermont gubernatorial election Vermont 1804 presidential 1828 09 02 no 1827 Vermont gubernatorial election 1827 1829 Vermont gubernatorial election 1829 160x160px Samuel Crafts.jpg Samuel C. Crafts Adams Party 16,285 94.7% Joel Doolitle (Vermont Supreme Court Justice).jpg Joel Doolittle Jacksonian Party 916 5.3% 1828 Vermont gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 220px County resultsCrafts: #3FA457 60–70% #008C21 70–80% #006E1A 80–90% #005113 90–100% Governor Ezra Butler Democratic-Republican Party Samuel C. Crafts Adams Party
The 1828 Vermont gubernatorial election took place September 2, 1828.Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776–1860: The Official Results by State and County 2003 McFarland and Company Jefferson, NC 265 https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesgube0000dubi It resulted in the election of Samuel C. Crafts to a one-year term as governor.Walton E. P. Eliakim Persons Walton 1879 Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont VII https://books.google.com/books?id=3p06AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA302 Montpelier, VT J. & J. M. Poland 301–302 Google Books
The Vermont General Assembly met in Montpelier on October 9. The Vermont House of Representatives appointed a committee to review the votes of the freemen of Vermont for governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, and members of the governor's council. The committee determined that Crafts had won election to a one-year term as governor.
In the election for lieutenant governor, the committee determined that Democratic-Republican Henry Olin had won election to a second one-year term. Contemporary newspaper articles reported the results as: Olin, 14,928 (95.8%); Lyman Fitch, 652 (4.2%).October 10, 1828 Montpelier: The General Assembly https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75928798/general-assembly/ Burlington Free Press Burlington, VT 3 Newspapers.com
Benjamin Swan won election to a one-year term as treasurer, his twenty-ninth. Though he had nominally been a Federalist, Swan was usually endorsed by the Democratic-Republicans and even after the demise of the Federalist Party he was frequently unopposed.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=64759 Swan, Benjamin Joshua L. November 26, 2004 Our Campaigns Our Campaigns.com March 21, 2021 Newspapers of the time did not report vote totals, but did indicate that Swan had been reelected with no opposition.
The vote totals in the governor's race were reported as follows:
Results
1828 Vermont gubernatorial electionDubin 2003 273
Samuel C. Crafts Adams Party 16,285 94.7%
Joel Doolittle Jacksonian Party 916 5.3%
17,201 100%
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