| |||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 9.12% | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| Elections in Alabama |
|---|
 |
 Government |
The 1847 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 2, 1847, in order to elect the governor of Alabama. Democrat Reuben Chapman won his first term with a 56% majority.
| |||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 9.12% | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| Elections in Alabama |
|---|
| |
| Government |
The 1847 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 2, 1847, in order to elect the governor of Alabama. Democrat Reuben Chapman won his first term with a 56% majority.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Reuben Chapman | 30,622 | 56.84 | |
| Whig | Nicholas Davis | 23,247 | 43.16 | |
| Total votes | 53,869 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratic hold | ||||
Reuben Wood was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. He served as the 21st governor of Ohio.
Dixon Hall Lewis was an American politician who served as a Representative and a Senator from Alabama.
Thomas Goode Jones was an Alabama lawyer and politician and military officer. He served in the Alabama legislature and as Governor of Alabama. He later became United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Reuben Chapman was an American lawyer and politician.
Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, was a British military officer, politician and member of the aristocracy, who held governorships in several British colonies during the 19th century.
Thomas J. Seay was an American Democratic politician who was the 27th Governor of Alabama from 1886 to 1890.
Maple Hill Cemetery is the oldest and largest cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama. Founded on two acres in about the year 1822, it now encompasses nearly 100 acres and contains over 80,000 burials. It was added to the Alabama Historical Commission's Historic Cemetery Register in 2008, and to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Its occupants include five governors of Alabama, five United States senators, and numerous other figures of local, state, and national note. It is located east of the Twickenham Historic District.
The New York Court of Chancery was the highest court in the State of New York from 1701 to 1847.
Reuben O. Davis was a United States Representative from Mississippi.
The 1982 Alabama gubernatorial election included the last campaign and final electoral victory of George Wallace. The election occurred on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Governor Fob James declined to run for a second term, allowing for an open election in 1982. In the Democratic primary, Wallace received challenges from Lieutenant Governor George McMillan, Speaker of the State House Joe McCorquodale, former Governor Jim Folsom, and Reuben McKinley. Because Wallace did not receive a majority of the votes, he advanced to a run-off with McMillan and then narrowly won the Democratic nomination. Montgomery Mayor Emory Folmar went unchallenged for the Republican nomination.
Beth Killough Chapman is an American politician from Alabama. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the state's 51st secretary of state from 2007 until she resigned on July 31, 2013 in order to accept a position with the Alabama Farmers Federation.
Joseph Charles McCorquodale, Jr. was a United States politician from Alabama, who served as the Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives and unsuccessfully ran for Governor on the basis of the "McCorquodale plan" for Alabama. He was a member of Democratic Party. He was born in Mobile, Alabama.
Elections were held in Alabama on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Primary elections were held on June 1, 2010, with the run-off on July 13.
Belvoir, also known as the Saffold Plantation, is a historic plantation house built by Reuben Saffold II near Pleasant Hill, Alabama, United States. The Greek Revival-style house features a Carolina-type, hexastyle portico with Doric columns. It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on November 2, 1990.
The 2014 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the governor of Alabama.
The Withers-Chapman House is a historic residence in Huntsville, Alabama. The house was built by Allen Christian circa 1835 as the center of a farm that would become one of the major dairy suppliers in central North Alabama. After Christian's death in 1849, the house was purchased by Augustine and Mary Withers. Former Governor of Alabama Reuben Chapman acquired the house in 1873, after his previous house nearby had been burned by departing Union soldiers in 1865. The house remained in Chapman's family from 1873 until 1971. The surrounding farmland has been sold off into suburban development, but the house retains a prominent position on a 2-acre lot on a hillside.
Benjamin Franklin Saffold (1826–1889) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1868 to 1874.
Reuben Saffold was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1820 to 1834, and then Chief Justice until 1836.
Clarissa Chapman Armstrong was an American missionary in the Hawaiian Islands and Marquesas Islands, from 1832 until 1847. She was part of the Fifth Company of missionaries sent to Hawaii by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM).
 Alabama gubernatorial elections | |
|---|---|
|
  | This Alabama elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |