1861 Rhode Island gubernatorial election

none January 2025 December 2025 ly 1861 Rhode Island gubernatorial election United States 1861 Presidential no 1860 Rhode Island gubernatorial election 1860 1862 Rhode Island gubernatorial election 1862 April 3, 1861 x150px William Sprague IV Constitutional Union Party (United States) 12,005 53.76% x150px James Y. Smith Republican Party (United States) 10,326 46.25% 1861 Rhode Island gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 250px County resultsSprague: #ffb380 50–60%Smith: #e27f7f 50–60% Governor William Sprague IV Democratic Party (United States) William Sprague IV Constitutional Union Party (United States) A gubernatorial election was held in Rhode Island on April 3, 1861. The incumbent Constitutional Union governor William Sprague IV defeated the Republican mayor of Providence James Y. Smith.Dubin 2014 1 Sprague won the 1860 election leading a coalition of Conservative Republicans, former Whigs, and Democrats that formed to oppose the Radical Republican gubernatorial candidate, Seth Padelford.Smith 2006 90 Following the election, his supporters coalesced in the Constitutional Union Party.Smith 2017 184 In concurrent elections for the United States House of Representatives, the Constitutional Union candidates defeated the Republican candidates in both Rhode Island congressional districts.McLoughlin 1986 145–46 General election 1861 Rhode Island gubernatorial electionDubin 2014 1 Constitutional Union Party (United States) William Sprague IV (incumbent) 12,005 53.76 Republican Party (United States) James Y. Smith 10,326 46.25 22,331 100.00 Constitutional Union Party (United States) Notes Bibliography Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861–1911: The Official Results by State and County 2014 McFarland and Company Jefferson, NC 978-0-7864-5646-8 https://www.google.com/books/edition/United_States_Gubernatorial_Elections_18/WYJAIOabIPgC McLoughlin William G. Rhode Island: A History 1986 W. W. Norton & Company New York https://www.google.com/books/edition/Rhode_Island_A_History_States_and_the_Na/r5Z3UNxHdT0C Smith Adam I. P. No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North 2006 Oxford University Press New York 978-0-19-534596-4 https://books.google.com/books?id=M8BL9i0Gn2sC Smith Adam I. P. The Stormy Present: Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865 2017 University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill 978-1-4696-3389-3 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Stormy_Present/SrY4DwAAQBAJ Category:1861 Rhode Island elections Category:Rhode Island gubernatorial elections Category:1861 United States gubernatorial elections Category:April 1861 in the United States