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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1898, in 28 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 8, 1898 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).
| 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) [lower-alpha 2] 51.68% James G. Maguire (Democratic) [lower-alpha 3] 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) [lower-alpha 4] 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 [lower-alpha 5] | 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 [lower-alpha 6] | 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) [lower-alpha 7] [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) [lower-alpha 8] 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 | William A. Poynter (Populist) [lower-alpha 9] 50.19% 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) [lower-alpha 10] 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) [lower-alpha 11] 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) [lower-alpha 12] 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 [lower-alpha 13] [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] |
Daniel Lindsay Russell Jr. was the 49th Governor of North Carolina, serving from 1897 to 1901. An attorney, judge, and politician, he had also been elected as state representative and to the United States Congress, serving 1879–1881. Although he fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Russell and his father were both Unionists. After the war, Russell joined the Republican Party in North Carolina, which was an unusual affiliation for one of the planter class. In the postwar period he served as a state judge, as well as in the state and national legislatures.
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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.
