1900 United States gubernatorial elections

1900 United States gubernatorial elections
← 1899 November 6, 1900[a] 1901 →
34 governorships[b]
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Republican Democratic
Seats before 23 18[c]
Seats after 26 18
Seat change Increase3 Steady
Seats up 16 15
Seats won 19 15
  Third party Fourth party
 
Party Populist Silver
Seats before 3 1
Seats after 0 1
Seat change Decrease3 Steady
Seats up 3 0
Seats won 0 0
     Democratic gain      Democratic hold
     Republican gain      Republican hold

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1900, in 34 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 6, 1900 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).

Alabama held its last gubernatorial election in August, while Rhode Island held its last in April. In both cases the next gubernatorial election would be held on the same day as federal elections: in Alabama in 1902 and in Rhode Island in 1901. There was a change in Alabama's governorships in 1902, when governors served four-year terms instead of two-year terms.

In Florida, the gubernatorial election was held on the same day as federal elections, having been held in October since 1892.[1]

In North Carolina gubernatorial elections had been held on the same day as federal elections since 1876, but in 1900 the election was moved to August. It would revert to November from 1904.

Results

State Incumbent Party Status Opposing candidates
Alabama
(held, 6 August 1900) 		Joseph F. Johnston Democratic Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory William J. Samford (Democratic) 71.57%
John A. Steele (Republican) 17.59%
Grattan B. Crowe (Populist) 10.84%
[2]
Arkansas
(held, 3 September 1900) 		Daniel Webster Jones Democratic Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory Jeff Davis (Democratic) 66.66%
Harmon L. Remmel (Republican) 30.61%
Abner W. Files[3] (Populist) 2.74%
[4][5]
Colorado Charles S. Thomas Democratic [data missing] James Bradley Orman (Democratic)[d] 53.78%
Frank C. Goudy (Republican) 43.53%
James R. Wylie (Prohibition) 1.68%
DeWitt Copley (Socialist Labor) 0.45%
S. B. Hutchinson (Social Democrat) 0.38%
James T. Pearson (Populist) 0.19%
[6]
Connecticut George E. Lounsbury Republican [data missing] George P. McLean (Republican) 53.02%
Samuel L. Bronson (Democratic) 45.05%
Charles E. Steele (Prohibition) 0.86%
George A. Sweetland (Social Democrat) 0.58%
Adam Marx (Socialist Labor) 0.49%
[7]
Delaware Ebe W. Tunnell Democratic Retired, Republican victory John Hunn (Republican) 53.57%
Peter J. Ford (Democratic) 44.93%
Richard W. Cooper (Prohibition) 1.37%
Gustave E. Reinicke (Socialist) 0.13%
[8]
Florida William D. Bloxham Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory William Sherman Jennings (Democratic) 80.98%
Matthew B. MacFarlane (Republican) 17.27%
A.M. Morton (Populist) 1.75%
[9]
Georgia
(held, 3 October 1900) 		Allen D. Candler Democratic Re-elected, 78.57% George W. Trayler[e] (Populist) 21.43%
[10]
Idaho Frank Steunenberg Democratic Retired, Democratic victory Frank W. Hunt (Democratic)[f] 50.87%
D. W. Standrod (Republican) 47.04%
Silas Luttrell (Prohibition) 1.84%
Scattering 0.25%
[13]
Illinois John Riley Tanner Republican Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory Richard Yates Jr. (Republican) 51.49%
Samuel Alschuler (Democratic) 46.06%
Visscher Vare Barnes (Prohibition) 1.39%
Herman C. Perry (Social Democrat) 0.76%
Louis P. Hoffman (Socialist Labor) 0.12%
Alfred Cheesbrough Van Tine (Populist) 0.10%
Lloyd G. Spencer (Union Reform) 0.06%
John Cordingly (United Christian) 0.03%
[14]
Indiana James A. Mount Republican Term-limited, Republican victory Winfield T. Durbin (Republican) 50.54%
John W. Kern (Democratic) 46.70%
Charles Eckhart (Prohibition) 2.05%
John W. Kelly (Social Democrat) 0.34%
A. G. Burkhart (Populist) 0.23%
Philip H. More (Socialist Labor) 0.10%
M. A. Wilson (Union Reform) 0.04%
Scattering 0.00%
[15]
Kansas William Eugene Stanley Republican Re-elected, 52.25% John W. Breidenthal (Populist) 47.33%
G. C. Clemens (Social Democrat) 0.36%
Frank Holsinger (Prohibition) 0.06%
Scattering 0.00%
[16]
Kentucky
(special election) 		J. C. W. Beckham Democratic Re-elected, 49.89% John W. Yerkes (Republican) 49.09%
John D. White (Prohibition) 0.49%
A. H. Cardin (Populist) 0.36%
Walter T. Roberts (Social Democrat) 0.10%
James Doyle (Socialist Labor) 0.09%
[17]
Louisiana
(held, 17 April 1900) 		Murphy J. Foster Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory William Wright Heard (Democratic) 78.32%
Donaldson Caffery III (Fusion)[g] 18.49%
Eugene S. Reems (Republican) 3.19%
[18]
Maine
(held, 10 September 1900) 		Llewellyn Powers Republican [data missing] John Fremont Hill (Republican) 62.33%
Samuel L. Lord (Democratic) 34.01%
Grant Rogers (Prohibition) 3.10%
Norman Wallace Lermond (Socialist) 0.55%
Scattering 0.02%
[19]
Massachusetts Winthrop M. Crane Republican Re-elected, 59.06% Robert Treat Paine (Democratic) 33.69%
Charles H. Bradley (Social Democrat) 3.43%
Michael T. Berry (Socialist Labor) 2.28%
John M. Fisher (Prohibition) 1.54%
Scattering 0.00%
[20]
Michigan Hazen S. Pingree Republican Retired, Republican victory Aaron T. Bliss (Republican) 55.75%
William C. Maybury (Democratic) 41.27%
Frederic S. Goodrich (Prohibition) 2.16%
Henry Ramsay (Social Democrat) 0.49%
Henry Ulbricht (Socialist Labor) 0.18%
Daniel Thompson (Populist) 0.16%
Scattering 0.00%
[21]
Minnesota John Lind Democratic[h] Defeated, 47.95% Samuel Rinnah Van Sant (Republican) 48.67%
Bernt B. Haugan (Prohibition) 1.73%
Thomas H. Lucas (Social Democrat) 1.13%
Edward Kriz (Socialist Labor) 0.28%
Sylvester M. Fairchild (Midroad-Populist) 0.24%
[22]
Missouri Lon Vest Stephens Democratic Term-limited, Democratic victory Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democratic) 51.15%
Joseph Flory (Republican) 46.46%
Caleb Lipscomb (Social Democrat) 0.82%
Charles E. Stokes (Prohibition) 0.76%
J. H. Hillis (People's Progressive) 0.64%
Louis C. Fry (Socialist Labor) 0.18%
[23]
Montana Robert Burns Smith Democratic[i] Retired, Democratic victory Joseph Toole (Democratic) 49.24%
David S. Folsom (Republican) 35.56%
Thomas S. Hogan (Independent Democrat) 14.40%
J. F. Fox (Social Democrat) 0.79%
[24]
Nebraska William A. Poynter Populist[j] Defeated, 48.51% Charles Henry Dietrich (Republican) 48.88%
Lucius O. Jones (Prohibition) 1.85%
Taylor Flick (Midroad-Populist) 0.47%
Theodore Kharas (Socialist) 0.29%
[25]
New Hampshire Frank W. Rollins Republican Retired, Republican victory Chester B. Jordan (Republican) 59.36%
Frederick E. Potter (Democratic) 38.50%
Josiah M. Fletcher (Prohibition) 1.30%
Sumner F. Claflin (Social Democrat) 0.83%
Scattering 0.01%
[26]
New York Theodore Roosevelt Republican Retired to run for U.S. Vice President, Republican victory Benjamin Odell (Republican) 51.98%
John B. Stanchfield (Democratic) 44.80%
William T. Wardwell (Prohibition) 1.47%
Charles Hunter Corregan (Socialist Labor) 0.89%
Ben Hanford (Social Democrat) 0.87%
[27]
North Carolina
(held, 2 August 1900)[28][29] 		Daniel Lindsay Russell Republican Term-limited, Democratic victory Charles Brantley Aycock (Democratic) 59.57%
Spencer B. Adams (Republican) 40.31%
Henry Sheets (Prohibition) 0.11%
Scattering 0.00%
[30]
North Dakota Frederick B. Fancher Republican Retired,[31] Republican victory Frank White (Republican) 59.20%
Max Wipperman (Democratic)[k] 38.72%
Delevan Carlton (Prohibition) 0.97%
George F. Poague (Socialist) 0.74%
O. G. Major (Populist) 0.37%
[32]
Rhode Island
(held, 4 April 1900) 		Elisha Dyer, Jr. Republican [data missing] William Gregory (Republican) 54.33%
Nathan W. Littlefield (Democratic) 35.85%
James P. Reid (Socialist Labor) 5.96%
Henry B. Metcalf (Prohibition) 3.86%
[33]
South Carolina Miles Benjamin McSweeney Democratic Re-elected, 100.00%[34] (Democratic primary run-off results)
Miles Benjamin McSweeney 57.86%
James A. Hoyt 42.14%
[35]
South Dakota Andrew E. Lee Populist Retired to run for U.S. House, Republican victory Charles N. Herreid (Republican) 56.31%
Burre H. Lien (Democratic)[l] 41.97%
F. J. Carlisle (Prohibition) 1.39%
L. E. Stair (Midroad-Populist) 0.33%
[36]
Tennessee Benton McMillin Democratic Re-elected, 53.86% John E. McCall (Republican) 44.29%
R. S. Cheves (Prohibition) 1.28%
H. J. Mullens (Populist) 0.47%
Charles H. Stockwell (Social Democrat) 0.10%
[37]
Texas Joseph D. Sayers Democratic Re-elected, 67.56% R. E. Hanney (Republican) 25.12%
T. J. McMinn (Populist) 5.92%
G. H. Royal (Socialist Labor) 0.03%
Scattering 1.37%
[38]
Utah Heber Manning Wells Republican Re-elected, 51.71% James Henry Moyle (Democratic) 48.29%
[39]
Vermont
(held, 4 September 1902) 		Edward Curtis Smith Republican Retired, Republican victory William W. Stickney (Republican) 72.19%
John H. Senter (Democratic) 25.53%
Henry C. Barnes (Prohibition) 1.42%
James Pirie (Social Democrat) 0.85%
Scattering 0.02%
[40]
Washington John Rankin Rogers Populist[m] Re-elected as a Democrat, 48.86% John M. Frink (Republican) 46.81%
Robert E. Dunlap (Prohibition) 1.97%
William C. B. Randolph (Social Democrat) 1.57%
William McCormick (Socialist Labor) 0.79%
[41]
West Virginia George W. Atkinson Republican Term-limited, Republican victory Albert B. White (Republican) 53.84%
John H. Holt (Democratic) 45.43%
Thomas Carskadon (Prohibition) 0.60%
H. T. Houston (Populist) 0.14%
[42]
Wisconsin Edward Scofield Republican Retired, Republican victory Robert M. LaFollette (Republican) 59.84%
Louis G. Bomrich (Democratic) 36.36%
J. Burritt Smith (Prohibition) 2.20%
Howard Tuttle (Social Democrat) 1.49%
Frank Wilke (Socialist Labor) 0.12%
Scattering 0.00%
[43]

See also

References

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Notes

  1. ^ Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Vermont held early elections.
  2. ^ Including a special election in Kentucky.
  3. ^ Kentucky Governor William S. Taylor (R) was removed from office by the General Assembly in January 1900 and replaced by William Goebel (D)
  4. ^ Orman ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party
  5. ^ OurCampaigns names this candidate John W. Traylor
  6. ^ Some sources indicate Hunt ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party[11][12]
  7. ^ Caffery ran under a fusion ticket between the Populist Party and the Lily-White Republicans
  8. ^ Lind ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party
  9. ^ Smith ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party
  10. ^ Poynter ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party
  11. ^ Wipperman ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party
  12. ^ Lien ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party
  13. ^ Rogers ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party

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