1849 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
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County results Dewey: 30–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Collins: 30–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Chase: 30–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1849 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1849. Democrat Nelson Dewey won the election with 52% of the vote, winning his second term as Governor of Wisconsin. Dewey defeated Whig Party candidate Alexander L. Collins and Free Soil Party candidate Warren Chase.[1]
This was the second Wisconsin gubernatorial election, and the first election for a full two-year gubernatorial term.
Democratic Party
Nelson Dewey was the incumbent governor, having been elected in the 1848 election. He was a prominent lawyer and real-estate investor in Grant County, Wisconsin. He did extensive business with the lead-mining industry, which was a major component of the economy of the Wisconsin Territory. He had been a member of nearly every session of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, first as a member of the Territorial Assembly, from 1838 to 1842, then as a member of the Territorial Council from 1842 to 1846. He served as Speaker of the Territorial Assembly in 1840, and President of the Territorial Council in 1846.[2]
Other candidates
Although Dewey was renominated on the first ballot, two other names were placed in candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination at the 1849 State Democratic Convention, held in Madison:
- Harrison Carroll Hobart, of Sheboygan, was a state senator and prominent lawyer. He had also served in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives.
- William Rudolph Smith, of Mineral Point, had been a colonel in the War of 1812 and served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly before moving to the Wisconsin Territory. In Wisconsin, he negotiated an important treaty with the Chippewa, obtaining a portion of their land, and had been a delegate to Wisconsin's first constitutional convention.
Nomination
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Vote of the Wisconsin Democratic Convention, September 6, 1849 | |||||
Democratic | Nelson Dewey (incumbent) | 37 | 58.73% | ||
Democratic | Harrison Carroll Hobart | 13 | 20.63% | ||
Democratic | William Rudolph Smith | 11 | 17.46% | ||
Blank | 1 | 1.59% | |||
Plurality | 24 | 38.09% | |||
Total votes | 63 | 100.0% |
Free Soil Party
Whig Party
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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General Election, November 6, 1849 | |||||
Democratic
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Nelson Dewey (incumbent) | 16,649 | 52.42% | ||
Whig | Alexander L. Collins | 11,317 | 35.63% | ||
Free Soil | Warren Chase | 3,761 | 11.84% | ||
Scattering | 32 | 0.10% | |||
Total votes | '31,759' | '100.0%' | |||
Democratic hold |
Results by County
Dewey Democratic |
Collins Whig |
Chase Free Soil |
Margin | County Total[5] | |||||
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County | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # |
Brown | 281 | 61.76% | 171 | 37.58% | 3 | 0.66% | 110 | 24.18% | 455 |
Crawford | 152 | 82.61% | 32 | 17.39% | 0 | 0.0% | 120 | 65.22% | 152 |
Dane | 666 | 44.08% | 759 | 50.23% | 86 | 5.69% | 93 | 6.15% | 1,511 |
Dodge | 1,255 | 60.31% | 714 | 34.31% | 112 | 5.38% | 541 | 26.00% | 2,081 |
Fond du Lac | 640 | 51.24% | 389 | 31.14% | 220 | 17.61% | 251 | 20.10% | 1,249 |
Grant | 1,036 | 48.07% | 1,103 | 51.18% | 16 | 0.74% | 67 | 3.11% | 2,155 |
Green | 443 | 55.38% | 324 | 40.50% | 33 | 4.13% | 119 | 14.88% | 800 |
Iowa | 688 | 51.00% | 655 | 48.55% | 6 | 0.44% | 33 | 2.45% | 1,349 |
Jefferson | 897 | 52.64% | 649 | 38.09% | 158 | 9.27% | 248 | 14.55% | 1,704 |
Lafayette | 1,094 | 72.45% | 416 | 27.55% | 0 | 0.0% | 678 | 44.90% | 1,510 |
Marquette | 259 | 40.72% | 247 | 38.84% | 130 | 20.44% | 12 | 1.89% | 636 |
Milwaukee | 2,108 | 71.05% | 718 | 24.20% | 141 | 4.75% | 1,390 | 46.85% | 2,967 |
Portage | 287 | 52.47% | 259 | 47.35% | 1 | 0.18% | 28 | 5.12% | 547 |
Racine | 761 | 32.03% | 716 | 30.13% | 899 | 37.84% | 138 | 5.81% | 2,376 |
Rock | 604 | 26.11% | 1,168 | 50.50% | 541 | 23.39% | 564 | 24.38% | 2,313 |
Sauk | 355 | 60.79% | 226 | 38.70% | 3 | 0.51% | 129 | 22.09% | 584 |
Sheboygan | 635 | 65.87% | 322 | 33.40% | 7 | 0.73% | 313 | 32.47% | 964 |
St. Croix | 56 | 72.73% | 21 | 27.27% | 0 | 0.0% | 35 | 45.45% | 77 |
Walworth | 646 | 30.49% | 667 | 31.48% | 806 | 38.04% | 139 | 6.56% | 2,119 |
Washington | 1,616 | 84.61% | 208 | 10.89% | 86 | 4.50% | 1,408 | 73.72% | 1,910 |
Waukesha | 1,319 | 55.94% | 669 | 28.37% | 370 | 15.69% | 650 | 27.57% | 2,358 |
Winnebago | 318 | 40.46% | 335 | 42.62% | 133 | 16.92% | 17 | 2.16% | 786 |
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-9752820-7-6.
- ^ Heg, J.E., ed. (1882). "Annals of the legislature". The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin, 1882 (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 161–171, 175–176. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ Reed, Parker McCobb (1882). The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin. P. M. Reed. pp. 105, 106. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
- ^ Dubin, Michael J. (2003). United States gubernatorial elections, 1776-1860. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.