Appendix A
The Thorny Rose: The Americanization Of An Urban, Immigrant, Working Class Regiment In The Civil War. A Social History Of The 39th New York Volunteer Infantry
APPENDIX A
STATE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS: SELECTED YEARS*
*Compiled From Guide To American Elections, 397-437.
| STATE | YEAR | CANDIDATE | PARTY | % POP. VOTE |
| Alabama | 1855 | Winston | Democratic | 57.2 |
| Shortbridge | American | 41.5 | ||
| Arkansas | 1856 | Conway | Democratic | 64.6 |
| Yell | American | 35.4 | ||
| California | 1855 | Johnson | American | 52.5* |
| Bigler | Democratic | 47.5 | ||
| 1857 | Weller | Democratic | 47.5 | |
| Stanly | Republican | 22.5 | ||
| Bowie | American | 20.8 | ||
| Connecticut | 1855 | Minor | American | 43.5* |
| Ingham | Democratic | 42.3 | ||
| Dutton | Whig | 14.2 | ||
| 1856 | Ingham | Democratic | 49.0 | |
| Minor | American | 39.0 | ||
| Wells | Republican | 10.1 | ||
| Delaware | 1854 | Causey | American | 52.6* |
| Barton | Democratic | 47.4 | ||
| Florida | 1856 | Perry | Democratic | 51.3 |
| Walker | American | 48.7 | ||
| Georgia | 1855 | Johnson | Democratic | 52.1 |
| Andrews | American | 41.8 | ||
| Overby | Temperance | 6.1 | ||
| 1857 | Brown | Democratic | 55.1 | |
| Hill | American | 44.9 | ||
| Illinois | 1856 | Bissell | Republican | 47.0 |
| Richardson | Democratic | 45.0 | ||
| Morris | American | 8.0 | ||
| Indiana | 1856 | No American Party candidate. | ||
| Iowa | 1856 | No American Party candidate. | ||
| Kentucky | 1855 | Morehead | American | 51.6* |
| Clark | Democratic | 48.4 | ||
| Louisana | 1855 | Wickliffe | Democratic | 53.6 |
| Derbigny | American | 46.5 | ||
| Maine | 1855 | No American Party candidate. | ||
| Maryland | 1855 | Hicks | American | 54.9* |
| Groome | Democratic | 45.1 | ||
| Massachusetts | 1854 | Gardner | American | 62.6* |
| Washburn | Whig | 20.9 | ||
| Bishop | Democratic | 10.6 | ||
| 1855 | Gardner | American | 37.7* | |
| Rockwell | Republican | 26.9 | ||
| Beach | Democratic | 25.5 | ||
| 1856 | Gardner | Fremont/American | 58.9* | |
| Beach | Democratic | 25.5 | ||
| Gordon | Fillmore/American | 6.6 | ||
| 1857 | Banks | Republican | 46.6 | |
| Gardner | American | 28.8 | ||
| Beach | Democratic | 24.3 | ||
| 1858 | Banks | Republican | 57.6 | |
| Beach | Democratic | 32.1 | ||
| Lawrence | American | 10.1 | ||
| 1859 | Banks | Republican | 54.0 | |
| Butler | Democratic | 32.5 | ||
| Briggs | American | 13.2 | ||
| 1860 | Andrew | Republican | 61.6 | |
| Beach | Democratic | 20.8 | ||
| Lawrence | Constitutional/Union | 14.0 | ||
| Michigan | 1856 | No American Party candidate. | ||
| Minnesota | 1857 | No American Party candidate. | ||
| Mississippi | 1855 | McCrae | Democratic | 54.2 |
| Fontaine | American | 45.8 | ||
| 1857 | McWillie | Democratic | 66.0 | |
| Yerger | American | 34.0 | ||
| Missouri | 1856 | Polk | Democratic | 40.8 |
| Ewing | American | 35.2 | ||
| T. H. Benton | Benton-Democratic | 24.0 | ||
| Missouri - Special Election | 1857 | Stewart | Democratic | 50.2 |
| Rollins | Emmancipation-American | 49.8 | ||
| New Hampshire | 1855 | Metcalf | American | 50.7* |
| Baker | Democratic | 41.8 | ||
| Bell | Whig | 5.3 | ||
| 1856 | Metcalf | American | 48.2* | |
| Wells | Democratic | 48.0 | ||
| New Jersey | 1854 | Newell | Fusion | 51.3 |
| Alexander | Democratic | 48.7 | ||
| New York | 1854 | Clark | Fusion/Republican | 33.4 |
| Seymour | Soft Democratic | 33.3 | ||
| Ullman | American | 26.1 | ||
| Bronson | Hard Democratic | 7.2 | ||
| 1856 | King | Republican | 44.5 | |
| Parker | Democratic | 33.4 | ||
| Brooks | American | 22.0 | ||
| 1858 | Morgan | Republican | 45.5 | |
| Parker | Democratic | 42.3 | ||
| Burrows | American | 11.2 | ||
| North Carolina | 1856 | Bragg | Democratic | 56.2 |
| Gilmer | American | 43.8 | ||
| Ohio | 1855 | No American Party candidate. | ||
| Pennsylvania | 1857 | Packer | Democratic | 52.0 |
| Wilmot | Republican | 40.2 | ||
| Hazlehurst | American | 7.8 | ||
| Rhode Island | 1855 | Hoppin | Whig-American | 81.5* |
| Potter | Democratic | 18.0 | ||
| South Carolina | Not available. | |||
| Tennessee | 1855 | Johnston | Democratic | 50.8 |
| Gentry | American | 49.2 | ||
| 1857 | Harris | Democratic | 54.4 | |
| Hatton | American | 45.6 | ||
| Texas | 1855 | Pease | Democratic | 58.4 |
| Dickson | American | 37.9 | ||
| 1857 | Runnels | Democratic | 57.9 | |
| Sam Houston | American | 42.1 | ||
| 1959 | Sam Houston | Independent Democrats | 56.8 | |
| Runnels | Democratic | 43.2 | ||
| Vermont | 1855 | Royce | Republican | 59.0 |
| Clark | Democratic | 29.4 | ||
| Slade | American | 8.3 | ||
| Virginia | 1855 | Wise | Democratic | 53.2 |
| Flournoy | American | 46.8 | ||
| Wisconsin | 1855 | No American Party candidate. | ||