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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1896, in 32 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 3, 1896 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).
Following the death of Delaware Governor Joshua H. Marvil, the General Assembly scheduled the next gubernatorial election for 1896, two years into the term. Delaware's gubernatorial elections have been held in presidential election years ever since.
In Florida, the gubernatorial election was held in October for the last time. The subsequent election days were moved to the same day as federal elections from the 1900 elections. [1]
State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
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Alabama (held, 3 August 1896) | William C. Oates | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory | Joseph F. Johnston (Democratic) 59.01% Albert Taylor Goodwyn (Populist) [b] 40.99% [4] |
Arkansas (held, 7 September 1896) | James Paul Clarke | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory | Daniel Webster Jones (Democratic) 64.26% Harmon L. Remmel (Republican) 25.28% Abner W. Files [5] [6] (Populist) 9.86% J. W. Miller (Prohibition) 0.60% [7] [8] |
Colorado | Albert McIntire | Republican | [ data missing ] | Alva Adams (Democratic) [c] 46.22% Morton Shelley Bailey (Populist) [d] 37.98% George W. Allen (Republican) 12.66% Davis H. Waite (Midroad-Populist) 1.78% Scattering 1.36% [9] |
Connecticut | Owen Vincent Coffin | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican) 62.53% Joseph B. Sargent (Democratic) 32.48% Lewis Sperry (National Democratic) 3.21% Edward Manchester (Prohibition) 1.06% John A. Norton (Socialist Labor) 0.72% [10] |
Delaware | William T. Watson (acting) | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Ebe W. Tunnell (Democratic) 44.20% John H. Hoffecker (Union Republican) 31.40% John C. Higgins (Anti-Addicks Republican) 20.39% Louis N. Slaughter (Single Tax) 2.44% Daniel M. Green (Prohibition) 1.56% Scattering 0.01% [11] [12] |
Florida (held, 6 October 1896) [13] | Henry L. Mitchell | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | William D. Bloxham (Democratic) 66.71% Edward R. Gunby (Republican) 20.35% William A. Wicks (Populist) 12.94% [14] [15] |
Georgia (held, 7 October 1896) | William Yates Atkinson | Democratic | Re-elected, 58.47% | Seaborn Wright (Populist) 41.53% [16] [17] |
Idaho | William J. McConnell | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | Frank Steunenberg (Democratic) [e] 76.79% David Budlong (Republican) 22.38% Moses F. Fowler (Prohibition) 0.83% [18] |
Illinois | John Peter Altgeld | Democratic | Defeated, 43.66% | John Riley Tanner (Republican) 54.10% George Washington Gere (Prohibition) 1.34% William St. John Forman (National Democratic) 0.75% Charles A. Baustian (Socialist Labor) 0.09% Isaac W. Higgs (National Prohibition) 0.07% [19] [20] |
Indiana | Claude Matthews | Democratic | Term-limited, Republican victory | James A. Mount (Republican) 50.93% Benjamin F. Shively (Democratic) 46.79% Thomas Wadsworth (Populist) 1.37% Leander M. Crist (Prohibition) 0.48% A. G. Burkhart (National Prohibition) 0.40% Philip H. Moore (Socialist Labor) 0.04% [21] [22] |
Kansas | Edmund Needham Morrill | Republican | Defeated, 48.30% | John W. Leedy (Populist) [f] 50.56% Horace Hurley (Prohibition) 0.71% Henry L. Douthart (National Prohibition) 0.23% A. E. Kepford (Independent Prohibition) 0.21% [23] [24] |
Louisiana (held, 21 April 1896) | Murphy J. Foster | Democratic | Re-elected, 56.27% | John N. Pharr (Populist) [g] 43.64% A. B. Booth 0.09% [25] [26] [27] |
Maine (held, 14 September 1896) | Henry B. Cleaves | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Llewellyn Powers (Republican) 66.84% Melvin P. Frank (Democratic) 27.79% Luther C. Bateman (Populist) 2.67% Ammi S. Ladd (Prohibition) 2.19% William H. Clifford (National Democratic) 0.49% Scattering 0.03% [28] [29] |
Massachusetts | Roger Wolcott (acting) | Republican | Re-elected, 67.05% | George Fred Williams (Democratic) 26.92% Frederick O. Prince (National Democratic) 3.68% Thomas C. Brophy (Socialist Labor) 1.18% Allen Coffin (Prohibition) 1.16% [30] [31] |
Michigan | John Treadway Rich | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Hazen S. Pingree (Republican) 55.57% Charles R. Sligh (Democratic) [h] 40.35% Rufus S. Sprague (National Democratic) 1.78% Robert C. Safford (Prohibition) 1.00% John Gilberson (National Prohibition) 0.35% Scattering 0.94% [32] |
Minnesota | David Marston Clough (acting) | Republican | Re-elected, 49.18% | John Lind (Democratic) [i] 48.10% William J. Dean (Prohibition) 1.53% Albert Alonzo Ames (Independent) 0.86% William B. Hammond (Socialist Labor) 0.33% [33] |
Missouri | William J. Stone | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Lon Vest Stephens (Democratic) 52.88% Robert E. Lewis (Republican) 46.35% Herman P. Faris (Prohibition) 0.39% J. McDowell Trimble (National Democratic) 0.27% Louis C. Fry (Socialist Labor) 0.11% [34] |
Montana | John E. Rickards | Republican | Lost re-nomination, Democratic victory | Robert Burns Smith (Democratic) [j] 70.99% Alexander C. Botkin (Republican) [k] 29.01% [35] |
Nebraska | Silas A. Holcomb | Populist [l] | Re-elected, 53.46% | John H. McColl (Republican) 43.50% Robert S. Bibb (National Democratic) 1.63% Joel Warner (Prohibition) 0.72% Richard H. Hawley (National Prohibition) 0.43% Charles Sadilek (Socialist Labor) 0.27% [36] |
New Hampshire | Charles A. Busiel | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | George A. Ramsdell (Republican) 61.41% Henry O. Kent (Democratic) 35.96% John C. Berry (Prohibition) 1.34% Harry H. Acton (Socialist Labor) 0.61% Gardiner J. Greenleaf (Populist) 0.36% George W. Barnard (National) 0.29% Scattering 0.02% [37] |
New York | Levi P. Morton | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Frank S. Black (Republican) 55.28% Wilbur E. Porter (Democratic) 40.33% Daniel G. Griffin (National Democratic) 1.87% Howard Balkam (Socialist Labor) 1.29% William W. Smith (Prohibition) 1.22% [38] |
North Carolina | Elias Carr | Democratic | Term-limited, Republican victory | Daniel Lindsay Russell (Republican) 46.46% Cyrus B. Watson (Democratic) 43.89% William A. Guthrie (Populist) 9.41% James R. Jones (National Prohibition) 0.17% Jeremiah W. Holt (Prohibition) 0.07% [39] [40] |
North Dakota | Roger Allin | Republican | Lost re-nomination, Republican victory | Frank A. Briggs (Republican) 55.61% Robert B. Richardson (Populist) [m] 44.39% [41] |
Rhode Island (held, 1 April 1896) | Charles W. Lippitt | Republican | Re-elected, 56.40% | George L. Littlefield (Democratic) 33.79% Thomas H. Peabody (Prohibition) 5.84% Edward W. Thienert (Socialist Labor) 2.52% Henry A. Burlingame (Populist) 1.45% [42] |
South Carolina | John Gary Evans | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | William Haselden Ellerbe (Democratic) 89.18% Sampson Pope (Lily-White Republican) 6.65% R. M. Wallace (Black and Tan Republican) 4.17% [43] [44] |
South Dakota | Charles H. Sheldon | Republican | Retired, Populist victory | Andrew E. Lee (Populist) [n] 49.76% A. O. Ringsrud (Republican) 49.37% J. F. Hanson (Prohibition) 0.87% [45] [46] |
Tennessee | Peter Turney | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Robert Love Taylor (Democratic) 48.76% G. N. Tillman (Republican) 46.62% A. L. Mims (Populist) 3.74% Josephus Hopwood (Prohibition) 0.88% [47] [48] |
Texas | Charles A. Culberson | Democratic | Re-elected, 55.31% | Jerome C. Kearby (Republican) 44.22% Randolph Clark (Prohibition) 0.35% Scattering 0.13% [49] [50] |
Vermont (held, 1 September 1896) | Urban A. Woodbury | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Josiah Grout (Republican) 76.41% J. Henry Jackson (Democratic) 21.25% Joseph Battell (Populist) 1.19% Rodney Whittemore (Prohibition) 1.08% Scattering 0.08% [51] |
Washington | John McGraw | Republican | Retired, Populist victory | John Rankin Rogers (Populist) [o] 55.55% Potter C. Sullivan (Republican) 41.68% Robert E. Dunlap (Prohibition) 2.78% [52] |
West Virginia | William A. MacCorkle | Democratic | Term-limited, Republican victory | George W. Atkinson (Republican) 52.41% Cornelius Clarkson Watts (Democratic) 46.44% T. C. Johnson (Prohibition) 0.67% N. W. Fitzgerald (Populist) 0.40% Scattering 0.08% [53] |
Wisconsin | William H. Upham | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Edward Scofield (Republican) 59.67% Willis C. Silverthorn (Democratic) 38.11% Joshua H. Berkey (Prohibition) 1.83% Christ Tuttrop (Socialist Labor) 0.29% Robert Henderson (National Prohibition) 0.09% [54] |
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The 1900 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on April 17, 1900. This was the first state election after the adoption of Louisiana's 1898 constitution, which disenfranchised nearly all of the state's Black voters, who had been the core supporters of the Republican Party. The constitution had been prompted by the unusually strong voter support for Republicans and Populists in the 1896 Louisiana gubernatorial election.
The 1900 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Incumbent Governor Andrew E. Lee, a Populist elected under Fusion with Populists, Free Silver Republicans, and Democrats, opted to run for Congress rather than for a third term. Former Sioux Falls Mayor Burre H. Lien won the Fusion nomination and ran against former Lieutenant Governor Charles N. Herreid. However, despite the closeness of the 1896 and 1898 elections, the Fusion's luck ran out; Herreid defeated Lien in a landslide to reclaim the office for the Republican Party.
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William Anderson Guthrie was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Chatham County, North Carolina, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. After the war, Guthrie married and moved to Fayetteville to practice law. He located his practice to Durham in 1884.