1890 United States gubernatorial elections

none January 2025 1890 United States gubernatorial elections United States 1890 legislative no 1889 United States gubernatorial elections 1889 1891 United States gubernatorial elections 1891 Seats up Seats won 27 governorships November 4, 1890Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wyoming held early elections. Democratic Party (United States) 22 28 6 8 14 Republican Party (United States) 20 16 4 17 13 1890 United States gubernatorial elections results map.svg 324px #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1890, in 27 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 4, 1890 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wyoming, which held early elections). In New Hampshire, the newly elected Governor's term began in the January following the election for the first time, rather than in the following June as previously. Idaho and Wyoming held their first gubernatorial elections on achieving statehood. Results State Incumbent Party Status Opposing candidates Alabama(held, 4 August 1890) Thomas Seay Democratic Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory Thomas G. Jones (Democratic) 76.12%Benjamin M. Long (Republican) 23.06%L. C. Coulson (Prohibition) 0.75%Scattering 0.06%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262834 AL Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Journal of the Senate, of the State of Alabama, Session of 1890-91, held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1890 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067974637&view=1up&seq=66 Montgomery, Ala. Smith, Allred & Co., State Printers and Binders 60 1891 Arkansas(held, 1 September 1890) James Philip Eagle Democratic Re-elected, 55.51% Napoleon B. Fizer (Union Labor)Some sources indicate Fizer ran under a fusion ticket between the Republicans and the Union Labor Party. 44.49%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265295 AR Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 California Robert Waterman (acting) Republican Retired, Republican victory Henry Markham (Republican) 49.55%Edward B. Pond (Democratic) 46.41%John Bidwell (Prohibition) 4.02%Scattering 0.03%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=122017 CA Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 The Journal of the Senate during the Twenty-Ninth Session of the Legislature of the State of California, 1891 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2988742&view=1up&seq=25 Sacramento A. J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing 15 1891 Colorado Job Adams Cooper Republican Retired, Republican victory John Long Routt (Republican) 50.11%Caldwell Yeaman (Democratic) 42.36%John G. Coy (Farmers Alliance) 6.23%John A. Elett (Prohibition) 1.27%Scattering 0.03%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264789 CO Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021Ferril Will C. 1911 Sketches of Colorado in four volumes. Being an Analytical Summary and Biographical History of the State of Colorado. I https://archive.org/details/sketchesofcolora00ferrrich/page/44/mode/2up The Western Press Bureau Company Denver, Colorado 45 House Journal of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado. Eighth Session. Convened at the City of Denver, Wednesday, January 7, 1891. https://lawcollections.colorado.edu/colorado-house-and-senate-journals/islandora/object/journals%3A120477#page/20/mode/2up Colorado Springs, Colo. The Gazette Printing Company, State Printers 21 1892 Connecticut Morgan Bulkeley Republican Lost renomination. Republican Convention https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94053256/1890-09-17/ed-1/seq-4/ Waterbury evening Democrat Waterbury, Conn. September 17, 1890 4 16 January 2021 Merwin for Governor https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015483/1890-09-18/ed-1/seq-2/ Morning journal and courier New Haven, Conn. September 18, 1890 2 16 January 2021 Following disputed election, remained in office for following term after legislature failed to resolve election.Under Connecticut law, a candidate needed 50% of the vote to win the election, or the state legislature would decide the election. The legality of some votes were contested. The Republican House and Democratic Senate deadlocked, and no choice was made. The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that Bulkeley would serve the term as acting governor.Hannan Caryn Herman Jennifer L. 2008 Connecticut Biographical Dictionary, 2008-2009 edition 1: A-G https://books.google.com/books?id=Pd_ETIlgTxgC Hamburg, MI State History Publications, LLC 186–187 978-1-878592-72-9Fleitz David L. 2004 Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown https://books.google.com/books?id=0tZCr_c4UPUC Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc. 12 0-7864-1749-8https://todayincthistory.com/2020/12/26/december-26-connecticuts-crowbar-governor-3/ December 26: The Governor Who Refused to Leave Office Foley Kathy 26 December 2020 Today in Connecticut History Office of the State Historian 16 January 2021 https://museumofcthistory.org/2015/08/morgan-gardner-bulkeley/ Morgan Gardner Bulkeley White David O. 1999 museumofcthistory.org Museum of Connecticut History 16 January 2021 Luzon B. Morris (Democratic) 50.01%Samuel E. Merwin (Republican) 47.28%Phineas M. Augur (Prohibition) 2.52%Henry C. Baldwin (Labor) 0.15%Scattering 0.03%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266583 CT Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Delaware Benjamin T. Biggs Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory Robert J. Reynolds (Democratic) 50.43%Harry A. Richardson (Republican) 48.89%William T. Kellum (Prohibition) 0.67%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266273 DE Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, convened and held at Dover, on Tuesday, the Sixth Day of January, in the Year of Our Lord 1891, &c., &c. https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/22146 Dover, Delaware James Kirk & Son, Printers 47 1891 Georgia(held, 1 October 1890) John Brown Gordon Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory William J. Northen (Democratic) unopposedAlthough many sources record Northen as unopposed, some record the result as Northen 102,757, scattering 750. The Georgia House and Senate Journals record that Northen received 105,365 votes, and that this was a majority of the whole votes cast, but do not record the votes cast for other candidates. It would appear that votes for another candidate were cast in Chatham County. Chatham's Light Vote https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063034/1890-10-02/ed-1/seq-8/ The morning news Savannah, Ga. October 2, 1890 8 16 January 2021 https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264450 GA Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, at the Session of the General Assembly. Commenced at Atlanta, Wednesday, November 5, 1890. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/govdimag.cgi?path=dbs/1890/ga/l404/1890.con/&user=galileo&sessionid=5c01f97b-1647336741-4082&serverid=DU&instcode=PUBL&return=ggpd%3fuserid%3dgalileo%26dbs%3dggpd%26action%3dretrieve%26recno%3d181%26numrecs%3d100%26__rtype%3drecno%26key%3dy-ga-bl404-b1890 Atlanta, Ga. Geo. W. Harrison, State Printer 17 1890 The Farmers Capture Georgia https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026913/1890-10-09/ed-1/seq-1/ The Pickens sentinel Pickens, S.C. October 9, 1890 1 16 January 2021 Idaho(held, 1 October 1890) New state George L. Shoup (Republican) 56.35%Benjamin Wilson (Democratic) 43.65%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266190 ID Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Kansas Lyman U. Humphrey Republican Re-elected, 39.05% John F. Willits (Populist) 36.31%Charles L. Robinson (Democratic) 24.22%A. M. Richardson (Prohibition) 0.42%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265547 KS Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Maine(held, 8 September 1890) Edwin C. Burleigh Republican Re-elected, 56.42% William P. Thompson (Democratic) 39.82%Aaron Clark (Prohibition) 2.62%Isaac C. Clark (Labor) 1.14%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266627 ME Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021Compiled by Grenville M. Donham 1900 Maine Register, State Year-Book and Legislative Manual 31 https://books.google.com/books?id=swxFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA123 Portland, Maine 123 Massachusetts John Q. A. Brackett Republican Defeated, 46.04% William E. Russell (Democratic) 49.21%John Blackmer (Prohibition) 4.75%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266533 MA Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021Coolidge Henry D. McLaughlin Edward A. 1891 Manual for the use of the General Court, &c. https://archive.org/stream/manualforuseofge1891mass#page/310/mode/2up Boston Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers 311 Michigan Cyrus G. Luce Republican Retired, Democratic victory Edwin B. Winans (Democratic) 46.18%James Munroe Turner (Republican) 43.28%Azariah S. Partridge (Prohibition) 7.21%Eugene H. Belden (Industrial) 3.32%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=160944 MI Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021Carl Christopher J. 2012 Michigan Manual 2011-2012 Summary of Vote for Governor, 1835-2010 http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(k44qjbpfblenqbndmowkjj4b))/documents/2011-2012/michiganmanual/2011-MM-P0578-p0582.pdf Lansing, MI The Legislative Service Bureau 579 978-1-878210-06-7 Minnesota William Rush Merriam Republican Re-elected, 36.58% Thomas Wilson (Democratic) 35.64%Sidney M. Owen (Farmers Alliance) 24.29%James P. Pinkham (Prohibition) 3.50%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=62228 MN Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Minnesota Legislative Manual. Compiled for the Legislature of 2017-2018. https://www.sos.state.mn.us/media/3002/mn-votes_2017.pdf Minnesota Elections Saint Paul, Minnesota Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State 497 2017 Nebraska John Milton Thayer Republican Lost renomination, Richards will lead https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94056415/1890-08-01/ed-1/seq-2/ The McCook tribune McCook, Neb. August 1, 1890 2 16 January 2021 Democratic victoryDisputed election. Boyd was removed from office by the Nebraska Supreme Court in May 1891 and Thayer installed in his place. Boyd's citizenship would be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and he would be restored to office in February 1892. James E. Boyd (Democratic) 33.32%J. H. Powers (Populist) 32.78%L. D. Richards (Republican) 32.17%B. L. Paine (Prohibition) 1.72%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=265707 NE Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Nevada Frank Bell (acting) Republican January 2021 Roswell K. Colcord (Republican) 53.27%Theodore Winters (Democratic) 46.73%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=85530 NV Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 New Hampshire David H. Goodell Republican Retired, Republican victory Hiram A. Tuttle (Republican) 49.26%Charles H. Amsden (Democratic) 49.15%Josiah M. Fletcher (Prohibition) 1.58%Scattering 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266667 NH Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Journals of the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire, January Session, 1891 Journals of the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire at their Session, holden at the Capitol in Concord commencing https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112105337957&view=1up&seq=390 Manchester John B. Clarke, Public Printer 384 1891 (Legislative election)Since no candidate received 50% of the vote, the state legislature decided the election. Tuttle was elected.(held, 7 January 1891)Hiram A. Tuttle, 185 votesCharles H. Amsden, 150 votes Journals of the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire, January Session, 1891 Journals of the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire at their Session, holden at the Capitol in Concord commencing https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112105337957&view=1up&seq=392 Manchester John B. Clarke, Public Printer 386 1891 North Dakota John Miller Republican Retired, Republican victory Andrew H. Burke (Republican) 52.23%William N. Roach (Democratic) 34.55%Walter Muir (Farmers Alliance) 13.22%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266477 ND Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 State of North Dakota. 1907 Legislative Manual https://www.ndconst.org/_media/laws/1907_legislative_manual.pdf Bismarck, N. D. Tribune, Printers and Binders 183 1907 Oregon(held, 2 June 1890) Sylvester Pennoyer Democratic Re-elected, 53.55% David P. Thompson (Republican) 46.45%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263425 OR Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 The Journal of the House of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon for the Sixteenth Regular Session. 1891. https://books.google.com/books?id=WWw4AAAAMAAJ Salem, Oregon Frank C. Baker, State Printer 43 1891 Pennsylvania James A. Beaver Republican Term-limited, Democratic victory Robert E. Pattison (Democratic) 50.00%George W. Delamater (Republican) 48.22%John D. Gill (Prohibition) 1.74%T. P. Rynder (Labor) 0.02%Scattering 0.02%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=41265 PA Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the Session begun at Harrisburg, on the 6th Day of January, 1891 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.78118442&view=1up&seq=92 Harrisburg Edwin K. Meyers, State Printer 86 1891 Rhode Island(held, 2 April 1890) Herbert W. Ladd Republican Defeated, 45.07%Since no candidate received 50% of the vote, the state legislature decided the election. Davis was elected on May 27.World Almanac 1891 73 John W. Davis (Democratic) 48.77%John H. Larry (Prohibition) 4.32%Arnold B. Chace (Union) 1.78%Scattering 0.05%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266717 RI Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021Edwin D. McGuinness, Secretary of State 1890 Manual with Rules and Orders for the use of the General Assembly, of the State of Rhode Island. 1890-1891 State of Rhode Island manual https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924106119575&view=1up&seq=132 Providence. R.I. E. L. Freeman & Son, State Printers 106 South Carolina John Peter Richardson III Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory Benjamin Tillman (Democratic) 79.81%A. C. Haskell (Independent Democrat) 20.00%Scattering 0.18%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=40493 SC Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021Kantrowitz Stephen August 2000 Ben Tillman and Hendrix McLane, Agrarian Rebels: White Manhood, "The Farmers," and the Limits of Southern Populism https://www.jstor.org/stable/2587866 The Journal of Southern History 66 3 497–524 Southern Historical Association 10.2307/2587866 2587866 16 January 2021 subscription Official figures https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93067777/1890-11-27/ed-1/seq-2/ The Newberry herald and news Newberry, S.C. November 27, 1890 2 16 January 2021 South Dakota Arthur C. Mellette Republican Re-elected, 44.46% H. L. Loucks (Independent) 31.71%Maris Taylor (Democratic) 23.83%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266443 SD Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 20211889–1900 Election Returns https://sdsos.gov/elections-voting/assets/1889-1900.pdf South Dakota Secretary of State 16 January 2021 Pierre, South Dakotahttps://sdsos.gov/elections-voting/assets/ElectionsReturnsPre1972.pdf Elections 2005 South Dakota Legislative Manual 616 16 January 2021 http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/cspg/research/election_data_archive/pdf/SD_Governor_Election_Results.pdf South Dakota Gubernatorial Elections, 1889-2006 www.politicsandgovernance.org Historical Election Archive, Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs https://web.archive.org/web/20140606231146/http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/cspg/research/election_data_archive/pdf/SD_Governor_Election_Results.pdf 16 January 2021 2014-06-06 Tennessee Robert Love Taylor Democratic Retired, Democratic victory John P. Buchanan (Democratic) 56.57%Lewis T. Baxter (Republican) 37.91%David C. Kelley (Prohibition) 5.52%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264750 TN Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021Moore John Trotwood Foster Austin Powers 1923 Tennessee, The Volunteer State. 1769-1923 II https://archive.org/details/tennesseevolunte02moor/page/74/mode/2up Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 75 Miller Chas. A. 1890 The Official and Political Manual of the State of Tennessee https://books.google.com/books?id=2NEGAQAAIAAJ Nashville, Tenn. Marshall & Bruce, Stationers 280 Texas Lawrence Sullivan Ross Democratic Retired, Democratic victory Jim Hogg (Democratic) 76.45%J. Webster Flanagan (Republican) 22.65%E. C. Heath (Prohibition) 0.72%Scattering 0.18%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264395 TX Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Journal of the House of Representatives of the regular session of the twenty-second legislature, begun and held at Austin, Texas, January 13, 1891 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2999581&view=1up&seq=85 Austin Marshall & Oldham 79 1891 Vermont(held, 2 September 1890) William P. Dillingham Republican Retired, Republican victory Carroll S. Page (Republican) 61.71%Herbert F. Brigham (Democratic) 35.59%Edward L. Allen (Prohibition) 2.14%Scattering 0.56%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=144153 VT Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont. Biennial Session, 1890. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082078423&view=1up&seq=327 Burlington Free Press Association 321 1891 Wisconsin William D. Hoard Republican Defeated, 42.71% George Wilbur Peck (Democratic) 51.86%Charles Alexander (Prohibition) 3.64%Reuben May (Union Labor) 1.76%Scattering 0.03%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262305 WI Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1962 Votes cast for Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidates in General Elections, 1848 to 1960 https://books.google.com/books?id=fMZWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA802 Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library 802 1962 Wyoming(held, 11 October 1890) New state Francis E. Warren (Republican) 55.38%George W. Baxter (Democratic) 44.62%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=263442 WY Governor, 1890 Our Campaigns 16 January 2021 See also 1890 United States elections References 30em Notes Bibliography Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books 1979 0-930466-17-9 Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 1-56802-396-0 Congressional Quarterly 1998 Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911: The Official Results by State and County McFarland 2014 978-0-7864-4722-0 Jefferson, North Carolina The World Almanac and Bureau of Information, 1891 https://archive.org/details/worldalmanac1891newy New York, NY The Press Publishing Co. 1891 World Almanac 1891 McPherson Edward The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for 1891 https://archive.org/details/vol1891tribuneal00unse/mode/2up New York, NY The Tribune Association 1891 Tribune Almanac 1891 Category:November 1890 in the United States