1797 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

none May 2024 September 2023 1797 Massachusetts gubernatorial election Massachusetts 1797 4 3 presidential 1796 1796 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 1798 1798 Massachusetts gubernatorial election No x150px File:IncreaseSumnerBySharples.jpg Increase Sumner Federalist Party (United States) 14,540 56.21% File:James Sullivan.jpg James Sullivan Democratic-Republican Party (United States) 7,125 27.55% File:John Singleton Copley - Portrait of Govenor Moses Gill - 07.117 - Rhode Island School of Design Museum.jpg Moses Gill Federalist Party (United States) 3,559 13.76% 1797 Massachusetts gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 250px County resultsSumner: #F6E8C3 40-50% #DFC27D 50-60% #BF812D 60–70% #8C510A 70–80% #543005 80–90% #382005 90–100%Sullivan: #AFE9AF 40–50% Governor Democratic-Republican Party (United States) Samuel Adams Federalist Party (United States) Increase Sumner The 1797 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 3. Incumbent Governor Samuel Adams did not stand for election to a fourth term. The party system was still taking shape in the state, and the Federalists nominated Increase Sumner, while more populist factions that had previously supported Governors John Hancock and Samuel Adams nominated Moses Gill and James Sullivan, respectively. The principal issues in this and subsequent elections were over federal policy: specifically the national response to threats of war with Revolutionary France, and the consequent need for increased taxes to arm the nation.Morse, pp. 175, 177 Sumner ultimately won a majority over the divided opposition. General election Candidates Moses Gill, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (Federalist) James Sullivan, Massachusetts Attorney General (Republican) Increase Sumner, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (Federalist) Results Although Gill polled well in Boston and the eastern counties of present-day Maine, the Federalists won a decisive victory over the divided opposition.Morse, pp. 174–175 1797 Massachusetts gubernatorial electionBurdick Charles 1814 The Massachusetts Manual: or Political and Historical Register, for the Political Year from June 1814 to June 1815 I https://books.google.com/books?id=DP7Y2qQ68wAC&pg=PA26 Boston Charles Callender 26 American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 1979 Glashan Roy Meckler Books Westport, Conn. https://archive.org/details/americangovernor0000glas/page/140/mode/2up?q=increase+sumner 140 Federalist Party (United States) Increase Sumner (incumbent) 14,540 56.21% Democratic-Republican Party (United States) James Sullivan 7,125 27.55% Federalist Party (United States) Moses Gill 3,559 13.76% Others Scattering 641 2.46% 25,865 100.00% Federalist Party (United States) Democratic-Republican Party (United States) References Bibliography https://archive.org/details/commonwealthhist04hart Commonwealth History of Massachusetts The States History Company 1927 Hart Albert Bushnell New York 1543273 Morse Anson https://books.google.com/books?id=xCUmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA23 The Federalist Party in Massachusetts to the Year 1800 Princeton University Press 1909 Princeton, NJ 718724 Sumner William Hyslop https://books.google.com/books?id=6EABAAAAYAAJ Memoir of Increase Sumner, Governor of Massachusetts: Governor of Massachusetts Trask, William Blake Samuel G. Drake 1854 Boston Category:1797 Massachusetts elections Category:Massachusetts gubernatorial elections