1910 South Carolina gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1910 South Carolina Democratic gubernatorial primary runoff South Carolina 1910 presidential Popular Democratic Party (US) 1908 South Carolina gubernatorial election 1908 1910 09 13 1912 South Carolina gubernatorial election 1912 x150px File:Coleman L Blease (cropped).jpg Cole Blease Democratic Party (US) 56,250 52.64% File:3x4.svg C. C. Featherstone Democratic Party (US) 50,605 47.36% Governor of South Carolina Martin Frederick Ansel Democratic Party (United States) Coleman Livingston Blease Democratic Party (United States) The 1910 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1910, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Coleman Livingston Blease won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to become the 90th governor of South Carolina. Democratic primary Candidates Cole L. Blease, State Senator from Newberry John T. Duncan Claudius Cyprian Featherstone, Laurens County attorney F.H. Hyatt Thomas Gordon McLeod, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina John Gardiner Richards, Jr., State Representative from Liberty Hill, Kershaw County By 1910, the South Carolina Democratic Party had split into two factions: the well-to-do farmers with ties to Clemson College, and the tenant farmers who largely did not benefit from many of the proposals instituted by Benjamin Tillman and his followers. Many of these poor farmers escaped the fields to the relative prosperity of a mill town. Coleman Livingston Blease, a lawyer from Newberry, sought to portray himself as the candidate for the downtrodden and oppressed white man who had not benefited from the Tillman era. Blease and prohibitionist candidate Claudius Cyprian Featherstone emerged as the front runners in the Democratic primary on August 30. Featherstone and his conservative allies attacked Blease for his coarse behavior, similar to A.C. Haskell's attacks on Tillman in the gubernatorial election of 1890, but once again the attacks only strengthened the candidacy of the antagonist. On September 13, Blease won by just over 5,000 votes in the runoff to essentially become the next governor of South Carolina because there was no opposition in the general election. Results Democratic PrimaryCandidateVotes% Coleman Livingston Blease 33,411 31.7 Claudius Cyprian Featherstone 30,045 28.5 Thomas Gordon McLeod 25,263 24.0 John Gardiner Richards, Jr. 9,770 9.3 F.H. Hyatt 5,436 5.1 John T. Duncan 1,436 1.4 Runoff results Democratic Primary RunoffCandidateVotes%±% Coleman Livingston Blease 56,250 52.6 +20.9 Claudius Cyprian Featherstone 50,605 47.4 +18.9 General election The general election was held on November 8, 1910, and Coleman Livingston Blease was elected the next governor of South Carolina without opposition. Being a non-presidential election and few contested races, turnout was much less than the previous gubernatorial election. South Carolina Gubernatorial Election, 1910 Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 South Carolina gubernatorial elections Meckler Books 1979 0-930466-17-9 284–285https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=31150 SC Governor, 1910 Our Campaigns April 2, 2019 The World Almanac and Encyclopedia, 1911 New York The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World) 1910 691 https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1911newy Democratic Party (United States) Coleman Livingston Blease 30,832 99.77 -0.2 Socialist Party of America F. N. U. Thompson 70 0.23 +0.2 30,762 99.55 30,902 |- | Democratic Party (United States) | colspan=5 |Democratic hold |- #00f 65+% won by Blease See also Governor of South Carolina List of governors of South Carolina South Carolina gubernatorial elections References Jordan Frank E The Primary State: A History of the Democratic Party in South Carolina, 1876–1962 26–28 Ernest McPherson Jr. Lander A History of South Carolina, 1865–1960 1970 University of South Carolina Press 0-87249-169-2 49 https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthca0000land/page/49 Official Count By State Executive Committee The News and Courier 3 September 1910 2 Blease Has Majority of 5,645 The News and Courier 18 September 1910 1 External links SCIway Biography of Coleman Livingston Blease 1908 South Carolina gubernatorial elections 1912 Category:1910 United States gubernatorial elections 1910 Gubernatorial Category:November 1910 in the United States