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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).
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 | William A. Poynter (Populist)[i] 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)[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.
- ^ Some sources indicate Gage ran under a fusion ticket between the Republicans and the Union Labor Party.[3][4]
- ^ Maguire ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats, the Populists and the Silver Republican Party.
- ^ Thomas ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
- ^ Steunenberg ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Silver Republican Party.
- ^ Leedy ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
- ^ Whiting ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats, the Populists and the Silver Republican Party.
- ^ Lind ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
- ^ Poynter ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats, the Populists and the Silver Republican Party.[18]
- ^ Holmes ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
- ^ King ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
- ^ Swallow also stood on the Honest Government, Populist and Liberty tickets.
- ^ Lee ran under a fusion ticket 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.