1898 United States gubernatorial elections
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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1898, in 28 states, concurrent with the
Senate elections
, on November 8, 1898 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).
Results
State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama (held, 1 August 1898) |
Joseph F. Johnston | Democratic | Re-elected, 66.97% | Gilbert B. Deans (Populist) 30.32% Andrew J. Warner (Colored Republican) 1.90% W. B. Witherspoon (Prohibition) 0.80% [1] |
Arkansas (held, 5 September 1898) |
Daniel Webster Jones | Democratic | Re-elected, 67.35% | H. F. Auten (Democratic) 24.60% W. S. Morgan (Populist) 7.45% Alexander McKnight (Prohibition) 0.61% [2] |
California | James Budd | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Henry Gage (Republican)[b] 51.68%
James G. Maguire (Democratic)[c] 45.03% Job Harriman (Socialist Labor) 1.79% J. E. McComas (Prohibition) 1.50% [5] |
Colorado | Alva Adams | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Charles S. Thomas (Democratic)[d] 62.89% Henry R. Wolcott (Republican) 34.17% Robert H. Rhodes (Prohibition) 1.81% Nixon Elliott (Socialist Labor) 1.14% [6] |
Connecticut | Lorrin A. Cooke | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | George E. Lounsbury (Republican) 54.17% Daniel N. Morgan (Democratic) 42.94% Charles Stodel (Socialist Labor) 1.92% Charles E. Steele (Prohibition) 0.98% [7] |
Georgia (held, 5 October 1898) |
William Yates Atkinson | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Allen D. Candler (Democratic) 69.75% John R. Hogan (Populist) 30.25% [8] |
Idaho | Frank Steunenberg | Democratic[e] | Re-elected, 48.83% | Albert B. Moss (Republican) 42.30% James H. Anderson (Populist) 13.51% Mary C. Johnson (Prohibition) 2.96% [9] |
Kansas | John W. Leedy | Populist[f] | Defeated, 46.55% | William Eugene Stanley (Republican) 51.81% William A. Peffer (Prohibition) 1.42% Caleb Lipscomb (Socialist Labor) 0.22% [10] |
Maine (held, 12 September 1898) |
Llewellyn Powers | Republican | Re-elected, 62.97% | Samuel L. Lord (Democratic) 33.16% Ammi S. Ladd (Prohibition) 2.71% Robert Gerry (Populist) 0.75% Erastus Lermond (National Democratic) 0.37% Scattering 0.05% [11][12] |
Massachusetts | Roger Wolcott | Republican | Re-elected, 60.16% | Alexander B. Bruce (Democratic) 33.98% George R. Peare (Socialist Labor) 3.17% Samuel B. Shapleigh (Prohibition) 1.49% Winfield P. Porter (Social Democrat) 1.18% Scattering 0.03% [13] |
Michigan | Hazen S. Pingree | Republican | Re-elected, 57.75% | Justin R. Whiting (Democratic)[g][14][15] 39.92% Noah W. Cheever (Prohibition) 1.66% Sullivan W. Cook (Midroad-Populist) 0.39% George Hasseler (Socialist Labor) 0.26% [16] |
Minnesota | David Marston Clough | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | John Lind (Democratic)[h] 52.26% William Henry Eustis (Republican) 44.26% George W. Higgins (Prohibition) 2.10% Lionel C. Long (Midroad-Populist) 0.71% William B. Hammond (Socialist Labor) 0.67% [17] |
Nebraska | Silas A. Holcomb | Populist | Retired, Populist victory | Monroe Leland Hayward (Republican) 48.77%
R. V. Muir (Prohibition) 0.90% H. S. Aley (Socialist Labor) 0.13% Scattering 0.01% [19] |
Nevada | Reinhold Sadler (acting) | Silver | Re-elected, 35.67% | William McMillan (Republican) 35.45% George Russell (Democratic) 20.55% J. B. McCullough (Populist) 8.33% [20] |
New Hampshire | George A. Ramsdell | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Frank W. Rollins (Republican) 54.23% Charles F. Stone (Democratic) 43.23% Augustus G. Stevens (Prohibition) 1.62% Sumner F. Claflin (Social Democrat) 0.42% Benjamin F. Whitehouse (Socialist Labor) 0.32% Gardiner J. Greenleaf (Populist) 0.13% Scattering 0.05% [21][22] |
New Jersey | David Ogden Watkins (acting) | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Foster McGowan Voorhees (Republican) 48.91% Elvin W. Crane (Democratic) 47.27% Thomas H. Landon (Prohibition) 2.05% Matthew Maguire (Socialist Labor) 1.63% Frederick Schrayshuen (Populist) 0.15% [23] |
New York | Frank S. Black | Republican | Lost re-nomination, Republican victory | Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) 49.02% Augustus Van Wyck (Democratic) 47.70% Ben Hanford (Socialist Labor) 1.77% John Kline (Prohibition) 1.36% Theodore Bacon (Citizens Union) 0.16% [24] |
North Dakota | Joseph M. Devine | Republican | Retired to run for Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota, Republican victory | Frederick B. Fancher (Republican) 59.22% David M. Holmes (Democratic)[j] 40.78% [25][26][27] |
Oregon (held, 6 June 1898) |
William Paine Lord | Republican | Lost re-nomination,[28] Republican victory | Theodore Thurston Geer (Republican) 53.22% W. R. King (Democratic)[k] 40.77% John C. Luce (Midroad-Populist) 3.40% H. M. Clinton (Prohibition) 2.62% [29] |
Pennsylvania | Daniel H. Hastings | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | William A. Stone (Republican) 49.01% George A. Jenks (Democratic) 36.87% Silas C. Swallow (Prohibition)[l] 13.68% J. Mahlon Barnes (Socialist Labor) 0.44% [30] |
Rhode Island (held, 6 April 1898) |
Elisha Dyer Jr. | Republican | Re-elected, 57.74% | Daniel T. Church (Democratic) 30.86% James P. Reid (Socialist Labor) 6.71% Edwin A. Lewis (Prohibition) 4.69% [31] |
South Carolina | William Haselden Ellerbe | Democratic | Re-elected, 100.00%[32] | (Democratic primary run-off results) William Haselden Ellerbe 53.14% Claudius Cyprian Featherstone 46.86% [33] |
South Dakota | Andrew E. Lee | Populist[m][34] | Re-elected, 49.63% | Kirk G. Phillips (Republican) 49.18% Knute Lewis (Prohibition) 1.18% [35] |
Tennessee | Robert Love Taylor | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Benton McMillin (Democratic) 57.92% James Fowler (Republican) 39.81% W. D. Turnley (Populist) 1.33% R. N. Richardson (Prohibition) 0.94% [36] |
Texas | Charles Allen Culberson
|
Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Joseph D. Sayers (Democratic) 71.19% Barnett Gibbs (Populist) 28.07% R. P. Bailey (Prohibition) 0.60% G. H. Royal (Socialist Labor) 0.13% Scattering 0.02% [37] |
Vermont (held, 6 September 1898) |
Josiah Grout | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Edward Curtis Smith (Republican) 70.96% Thomas W. Moloney (Democratic) 27.03% Cyrus W. Wyman (Prohibition) 1.98% Scattering 0.04% [38] |
Wisconsin | Edward Scofield | Republican | Re-elected, 52.56% | Hiram Wilson Sawyer (Democratic) 41.09% Albinus A. Worsley (Populist) 2.59% Eugene W. Chafin (Prohibition) 2.45% Howard Tuttle (Social Democrat) 0.77% Henry Riese (Socialist Labor) 0.45% Scattering 0.10% [39] |
Wyoming | William A. Richards | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | DeForest Richards (Republican) 52.43% Horace C. Alger (Democratic) 45.39% E. B. Viall (Populist) 2.18% [40] |
See also
References
- ^ "AL Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "AR Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ Dubin 2014, p. 21.
- ^ World Almanac 1899, p. 431.
- ^ "CA Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "CO Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "CT Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "GA Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "ID Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "KS Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "ME Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ Journal of the Senate of Maine. 1899. Sixty-Ninth Legislature. Augusta: Kennebec Journal Print. 1899. p. 17.
- ^ "MA Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "Free Silver Fusion Ticket". The Yale expositor. Yale, St. Clair County, MI. July 1, 1898. p. 6. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "Fusion in Michigan". New York Times. New York, NY. June 23, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "MI Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "MN Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "Poynter is the nominee". Omaha daily bee. Omaha, NE. August 4, 1898. p. 3. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "NE Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "NV Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "NH Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ Journals of the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire. January Session, 1899. Manchester, N. H.: Arthur E. Clarke, Public Printer. 1899. p. 255.
- ^ "NJ Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "NY Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "ND Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "Official Count". The pioneer express. Pembina, ND. December 22, 1898. p. 1. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "The Official Vote". Bismarck weekly tribune. Bismarck, ND. December 23, 1898. p. 7. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ Geer, T. T. (1916). Fifty Years in Oregon. New York, NY: Neale Publishing Company. p. 407.
- ^ "OR Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "PA Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "RI Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "SC Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "SC Governor, 1898 - D Runoff". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "The state ticket". The state Democrat. Aberdeen, SD. November 4, 1898. p. 1. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "SD Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "TN Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "TX Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "VT Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "WI Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "WY Governor, 1898". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
Notes
- ^ Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont held early elections.
- fusionticket between the Democrats, the Populists and the Silver Republican Party.
- fusionticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
- fusionticket between the Democrats and the Silver Republican Party.
- fusionticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
- fusionticket between the Democrats, the Populists and the Silver Republican Party.
- fusionticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
- fusion ticket between the Democrats, the Populists and the Silver Republican Party.[18]
- fusionticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
- fusionticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
- ^ Swallow also stood on the Honest Government, Populist and Liberty tickets.
- fusionticket between the Democrats, the Populists and the Silver Republican Party.
Bibliography
- Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Meckler Books. ISBN 0-930466-17-9.
- Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998. ISBN 1-56802-396-0.
- Dubin, Michael J. (2014). United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911: The Official Results by State and County. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4722-0.
- The World Almanac and Encyclopedia, 1899. New York, NY: The Press Publishing Co. 1899.
- Rhoades, Henry Eckford, ed. (1899). The Tribune Almanac and Political Register, 1899. New York, NY: The Tribune Association.