1928 United States gubernatorial elections
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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1928, in 35 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 6, 1928 (September 10 in Maine).
Results[]
State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing Candidates |
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Arizona | George W. P. Hunt | Democratic | Defeated, 48.16% | John C. Phillips (Republican) 51.71% William O'Brien (Workers) 0.13% [1] |
Harvey J. Parnell | Democratic | Re-elected, 77.31% | Drew Bowers (Republican) 22.69% [2] | |
Colorado | William H. Adams | Democratic | Re-elected, 67.05% | (Republican) 31.85% Samuel A. Garth (Socialist) 0.52% Vera Jane Pease (Farmer Labor) 0.34% George J. Saul (Workers) 0.24% [3] |
Connecticut | John H. Trumbull | Republican | Re-elected, 53.57% | (Democratic) 45.61% Jasper McLevy (Socialist) 0.58% William Mackenzie (Farmer Labor) 0.14% Michael P. O'Lean (Socialist Labor) 0.11% [4] |
Delaware | Robert P. Robinson | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | C. Douglass Buck (Republican) 61.23% (Democratic) 38.77% [5] |
Florida | John W. Martin | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Doyle E. Carlton (Democratic) 60.97% W. J. Howey (Republican) 39.03% [6] |
Georgia | Lamartine G. Hardman | Democratic | Re-elected, 100.00% [7] |
(Democratic primary results) Lamartine G. Hardman 58.54% Eurith D. Rivers 41.46% [8] |
Idaho | H. C. Baldridge | Republican | Re-elected, 57.82% | C. Ben Ross (Democratic) 41.58% Thomas J. Coonrod (Socialist) 0.60% [9] |
Illinois | Len Small | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | Louis L. Emmerson (Republican) 56.76% Floyd E. Thompson (Democratic) 42.66% George Koop (Socialist) 0.43% William F. Kruse (Communist) 0.11% J. E. Procum (Socialist Labor) 0.05% [10] |
Indiana | Edward L. Jackson | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Harry G. Leslie (Republican) 51.25% (Democratic) 48.10% Albert Stanley (Prohibition) 0.36% Clarence E. Bond (Socialist) 0.23% Cassimer Benward (Socialist Labor) 0.03% Harry W. Garner (Workers) 0.02% Henry O. Shaw (National) 0.01% [11] |
Iowa | John Hammill | Republican | Re-elected, 62.79% | L. W. Housel (Democratic) 37.21% [12] |
Kansas | Benjamin S. Paulen | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Clyde M. Reed (Republican) 65.60% Chauncey B. Little (Democratic) 33.20% Henry L. Peterson (Socialist) 1.20% [13] |
Maine (held, 10 September 1928) |
Owen Brewster | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | William T. Gardiner (Republican) 69.31% Edward C. Moran Jr. (Democratic) 30.70% [14] |
Massachusetts | Alvan T. Fuller | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Frank G. Allen (Republican) 50.06% Charles H. Cole (Democratic) 48.81% Mary Donovan Hapgood (Socialist) 0.49% Chester W. Bixby (Workers) 0.29% Washington Cook (Prohibition) 0.20% Stephen Surridge (Socialist Labor) 0.09% Edith Hamilton MacFadden (Independent) 0.06% [15] |
Michigan | Fred W. Green | Republican | Re-elected, 69.94% | William A. Comstock (Democratic) 29.44% Guy H. Lockwood (Socialist) 0.21% Ervin D. Brooks (Prohibiton) 0.19% William Reynolds (Communist) 0.19% Paul Dinger (Socialist Labor) 0.05% [16] |
Minnesota | Theodore Christianson | Republican | Re-elected, 55.00% | Ernest Lundeen (Farmer-Labor) 22.72% (Democratic) 21.38% J. O. Bentall (Communist) 0.58% Harris A. Brandborg (Industrial) 0.33% [17] |
Missouri | Samuel Aaron Baker | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Henry S. Caulfield (Republican) 51.63% (Democratic) 48.17% Joseph G. Hodges (Socialist) 0.16% W. G. Brandenburg (Prohibiton) 0.03% Edward G. Middlecoff (Socialist Labor) 0.02% [18] |
Montana | John E. Erickson | Democratic | Re-elected, 58.65% | Wellington D. Rankin (Republican) 40.95% W. R. Duncan (Socialist) 0.40% [19] |
Nebraska | Adam McMullen | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Arthur J. Weaver (Republican) 56.98% Charles W. Bryan (Democratic) 42.63% F. Phillip Haffner (Socialist) 0.39% [20] |
New Hampshire | Huntley N. Spaulding | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Charles W. Tobey (Republican) 57.50% (Democratic) 42.32% Frank T. Butler (Socialist) 0.11% Henry C. Iram (Workers) 0.07% [21] |
New Jersey | A. Harry Moore | Democratic | Term-limited, Republican victory | Morgan F. Larson (Republican) 54.88% William L. Dill (Democratic) 44.74% Eugene A. Smith (National Prohibition) 0.14% W. K. Tallman (Socialist) 0.14% Scott Nearing (Workers) 0.08% John C. Butterworth (Socialist Labor) 0.02% [22] |
New Mexico | Richard C. Dillon | Republican | Re-elected, 55.61% | (Democratic) 44.30% John W. Blackburn (Independent) 0.08% [23] |
New York | Alfred E. Smith | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. President, Democratic hold | Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) 48.96% Albert Ottinger (Republican) 48.36% Louis Waldman (Socialist) 2.34% William F. Dunne (Workers) 0.25% Charles Hunter Corregan (Socialist Labor) 0.10% [24] |
North Carolina | Angus Wilton McLean | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | O. Max Gardner (Democratic) 55.57% Herbert F. Seawell (Republican) 44.43% [25] |
North Dakota | Walter Jeremiah Maddock | Republican | Ran for re-election as a Democrat, defeated, 43.15% | George F. Shafer (Republican) 56.50% K. P. Loesch (Farmer Labor) 0.36% [26] |
Ohio | A. Victor Donahey | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Myers Y. Cooper (Republican) 54.79% Martin L. Davey (Democratic) 44.74% Joseph W. Sharts (Socialist) 0.29% William Patterson (Communist) 0.09% John D. Goerke (Socialist Labor) 0.05% Frank W. Stanton (Prohibition) 0.04% [27] |
Rhode Island | Norman S. Case | Republican | Re-elected, 51.59% | (Democratic) 48.13% Charles F. Bishop (Socialist Labor) 0.16% Edward W. Theinert (Workers) 0.12% [28] |
South Dakota | William J. Bulow | Democratic | Re-elected, 52.48% | Buell F. Jones (Republican) 46.94% John G. Sumption (Farmer Labor) 0.58% [29] |
Tennessee | Henry H. Horton | Democratic | Re-elected, 61.06% | (Republican) 38.95% [30] |
Daniel Moody | Democratic | Re-elected, 82.43% | W. H. Holmes (Republican) 17.44% L. L. Rhodes (Socialist) 0.11% J. Stedham (Communist) 0.02% [31] | |
Utah | George H. Dern | Democratic | Re-elected, 58.50% | William Henry Wattis (Republican) 41.08% D. C. Dora (Socialist) 0.42% [32] |
Vermont | John Eliakim Weeks | Republican | Re-elected, 73.53% | (Democratic) 25.98% Frank M. Post (Prohibition) 0.47% Scattering 0.02% [33] |
Washington | Roland Hill Hartley | Republican | Re-elected, 56.22% | (Democratic) 42.73% James F. Stark (Socialist Labor) 0.67% Walter Price (Socialist) 0.25% Aaron Fislerman (Communist) 0.14% [34] |
West Virginia | Howard M. Gore | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | William Gustavus Conley (Republican) 53.73% J. Alfred Taylor (Democratic) 46.10% J. H. Snider (Socialist) 0.18% [35] |
Wisconsin | Fred R. Zimmerman | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | Walter J. Kohler Sr. (Republican) 55.38% Albert George Schmedeman (Democratic) 39.87% Otto R. Hauser (Socialist) 3.73% Adolph R. Bucknam (Prohibiton) 0.66% Joseph Ehrhardt (Socialist Labor) 0.20% Alvar J. Hayes (Communist) 0.14% Scattering 0.03% [36] |
See also[]
- United States elections, 1928
- 1928 United States presidential election
- United States Senate elections, 1928
- United States House of Representatives elections, 1928
References[]
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- ^ "GA Governor, 1928 – D Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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- ^ "IA Governor, 1928". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ "KS Governor, 1928". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ "ME Governor, 1928". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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- ^ "MI Governor, 1928". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ "MN Governor, 1928". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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- ^ "NE Governor, 1928". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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- ^ "SD Governor, 1928". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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- ^ "TX Governor, 1928". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ "UT Governor, 1928". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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