1900 United States gubernatorial elections (original) (raw)
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.
State
Incumbent
Party
Status
Opposing candidates
Alabama
(held, 6 August 1900)
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)
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]
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]
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]
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]
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)
Democratic
Re-elected, 78.57%
George W. Trayler[e] (Populist) 21.43%
[10]
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]
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]
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]
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)
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)
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)
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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)
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]
Democratic
Re-elected, 100.00%[34]
(Democratic primary run-off results)
Miles Benjamin McSweeney 57.86%
James A. Hoyt 42.14%
[35]
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]
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]
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]
Republican
Re-elected, 51.71%
James Henry Moyle (Democratic) 48.29%
[39]
Vermont
(held, 4 September 1902)
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]
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]
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]
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]