1913 United States gubernatorial elections

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1913 United States gubernatorial elections
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  1912 November 4, 1913;
July 23, 1913 (AR)
1914  

4 governorships [lower-alpha 1]
 Majority partyMinority party
 
Party Democratic Republican
Seats before3016
Seats after3016
Seat changeSteady2.svgSteady2.svg
Seats up40
Seats won40

1913 United States gubernatorial elections results map.svg
     Democratic hold

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1913, in four states. Massachusetts at this time held gubernatorial elections every year, which it would abandon in 1920. New Jersey at this time held gubernatorial elections every 3 years, which it would abandon in 1949. Virginia holds its gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, following the United States presidential election year.

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In Arkansas, a special election was held in July 1913 following the resignation of Joseph T. Robinson in March 1913 to take a seat in the United States Senate.

Results

StateIncumbentPartyStatusOpposing candidates
Arkansas
(special election, held 23 July 1913)
Junius Marion Futrell (acting)DemocraticDid not contest, Democratic victory George W. Hays (Democratic) 64.25%
Harry H. Myers (Republican) 20.41%
George W. Murphy (Progressive) 10.10%
J. Emil Webber (Socialist) 5.24% [1]
Massachusetts Eugene Foss DemocraticDid not contest Democratic renomination, ran as an independent, defeated David I. Walsh (Democratic) 39.77%
Charles S. Bird (Progressive) 27.72%
Augustus P. Gardner (Republican) 25.32%
Eugene Foss (Independent) 4.38%
George H. Wrenn (Socialist) 1.96%
Alfred H. Evans (Prohibition) 0.44%
Arthur Elmer Reimer (Socialist Labor) 0.42% [2]
New Jersey Leon R. Taylor (acting) [lower-alpha 2] DemocraticDid not contest, Democratic victory James F. Fielder (Democratic) 46.13%
Edward C. Stokes (Republican) 37.38%
Everett Colby (Progressive) 10.96%
James M. Reilly (Socialist) 3.72%
James G. Mason (Prohibition) 0.91%
John C. Butterworth (Socialist Labor) 0.66%
Daniel F. Dwyer (Independent) 0.23% [4]
Virginia William Hodges Mann DemocraticTerm-limited, Democratic victory Henry Carter Stuart (Democratic) 91.87%
C. Campbell (Socialist) 5.23%
B. D. Downey (Socialist Labor) 2.90%
[5]
Democratic primary results
Henry Carter Stuart, unopposed [6] [7] or "without serious opposition" [8]
[ data unknown/missing ]

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References

  1. "AR Governor, 1913 – Special Election". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  2. "MA Governor, 1913". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  3. "James Fairman Fielder" (PDF). New Jersey State Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 20, 2007. Retrieved January 14, 2010.
  4. "NJ Governor, 1913". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  5. "VA Governor, 1913". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  6. "Henry C. Stuart (1855-1933)". www.encyclopediavirginia.org. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  7. Evans Poston, Charles (1970). Henry Carter Stuart in Virginia Politics (PDF) (M.A.). University of Virginia. pp. 19–20. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
  8. Henry C. Ferrell Jr. (1985). Claude A. Swanson of Virginia: A Political Biography. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. p. 107. ISBN   978-0-8131-5243-1.

Notes

  1. Including a special election in Arkansas.
  2. James F. Fielder became governor when Woodrow Wilson resigned to be President of the United States. As president of the senate, Fielder acted as governor until he resigned from the senate. The constitution prohibited governors from succeeding themselves, so he resigned to run, winning the race. [3] This left Taylor, as speaker of the house of representatives, acting as governor for the remainder of the term.