1874 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1874 Massachusetts gubernatorial election Massachusetts 1874 Presidential no 1873 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 1873 1875 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 1875 November 3, 1874 File:WilliamGaston Massachusetts (1).png 150x150px William Gaston Democratic Party (United States) 96,376 51.82% File:GovThomasTalbot.jpg Thomas Talbot Republican Party (United States) 89,344 48.04% 300px County results 300px Municipality results Gaston: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90%Talbot: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #c21b18 80–90% #a80000 >90%Tie: #ae8bb1 50% Governor Thomas Talbot (acting) Republican Party (United States) William Gaston Democratic Party (United States) The 1874 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1874. Republican acting Governor Thomas Talbot, who took office after the resignation of William B. Washburn, was defeated by Democrat William Gaston, a former mayor of Boston. Gaston was the first Democrat elected governor since George S. Boutwell in 1852, and received the largest share of the vote for any Democrat in the state since the party's founding in 1828. Republican nomination Candidates George B. Loring, state senator from Salem Thomas Talbot, acting governor since April 1874 Campaign Talbot, who had only become acting governor in April, was by no means guaranteed re-nomination by the Republicans. No candidate, including Talbot, actively sought office, but a number of alternatives were mentioned. Among those suggested were Alexander H. Rice, Henry L. Dawes, George Frisbie Hoar, and Henry L. Pierce.25 July 1874 New York Tribune 3 BAY STATE POLITICS Talbot was thought of as the weakest Republican candidate possible on the basis of his vetoes of liquor regulation; even the prohibitionist governors William Claflin and William Washburn had accepted a tacit agreement that they would not override the legislature's will on liquor. A proposal was made for Talbot to run for Congress in the vacant seat of Ebenezer R. Hoar, with Rice running for governor, and Henry L. Dawes for U.S. Senate. Talbot rejected this plan, as did opponents of Rice and Dawes. Representative Benjamin Butler, who ran for the position in 1871 and had become a kingmaker in Massachusetts politics, largely stayed out of the race. Convention At the Republican convention in Worcester on October 7, Talbot was nominated on the first ballotMassachusetts: Gov. Talbot Renominated by the Republican State Convention 8 Oct 1874 Louisville Courier-Journal 1 with the support of Dawes and Hoar.24 Oct 1874 New York Tribune 3 BAY STATE POLITICS Some suggested that their support was exchanged for Talbot's endorsement of Dawes for U.S. Senate in the coming 1875 election. 1874 Massachusetts Republican convention Republican Party (US) Thomas Talbot (incumbent) 755 72.46% Republican Party (US) George B. Loring 198 19.00% Republican Party (US) Charles Devens 51 4.89% Republican Party (US) John E. Sanford 20 1.92% Republican Party (US) Benjamin Butler 16 1.54% Republican Party (US) Henry L. Dawes 1 0.10% Republican Party (US) George Frisbie Hoar 1 0.10% 1,042 100.00% General election Results 1874 Massachusetts gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266520 MA Governor, 1874 Our Campaigns 28 February 2021https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=25&year=1874&f=0&off=5 1874 Gubernatorial General Election Results - Massachusetts US Election Atlas 28 February 2021 Democratic Party (United States) William Gaston 96,376 51.82% 6.96 Republican Party (United States) Thomas Talbot (incumbent) 89,344 48.04% 6.51 Write-in All others 270 0.15% 0.07 185,990 100.00% See also 1874 Massachusetts legislature References Governor 1874 Massachusetts Category:November 1874 in the United States