1944 United States gubernatorial elections
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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1944, in 32 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 7, 1944 (September 11 in Maine).
This was the last time Idaho elected its governors to two year terms, switching to four years from the 1946 election.
Results
State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing Candidates |
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Arizona | Sidney Preston Osborn | Democratic | Re-elected, 77.91% | Jerrie W. Lee (Republican) 21.19% Charles R. Osburn (Prohibition) 0.90% [1] |
Arkansas | Homer Martin Adkins | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory | Ben T. Laney (Democratic) 85.96% H. C. Stump (Republican) 14.04% [2] |
Colorado | John C. Vivian | Republican | Re-elected, 52.40% | Roy Phelix Best (Democratic) 47.60% [3] |
Connecticut | Raymond E. Baldwin | Republican | Re-elected, 50.48% | Robert A. Hurley (Democratic) 47.36% Jasper McLevy (Socialist) 1.99% Joseph C. Borden Jr. (Socialist Labor) 0.17% [4] |
Delaware | Walter W. Bacon | Republican | Re-elected, 50.52% | Isaac J. MacCollum (Democratic) 49.19% Thomas W. Jakes (Prohibition) 0.29% [5] |
Florida | Spessard Holland | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Millard F. Caldwell (Democratic) 78.94% Bert L. Acker (Republican) 21.06% [6] |
Idaho | C. A. Bottolfsen | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory | Charles C. Gossett (Democratic) 52.64% W. H. Detweiler (Republican) 47.36% [7] |
Illinois | Dwight H. Green | Republican | Re-elected, 50.75% | Thomas J. Courtney (Democratic) 48.93% Charles Storm (Socialist Labor) 0.17% Willis R. Wilson (Prohibition) 0.14% [8] |
Indiana | Henry F. Schricker | Democratic | Term-limited, Republican victory | Ralph F. Gates (Republican) 50.97% Samuel D. Jackson (Democratic) 48.18% Waldo E. Yeater (Prohibition) 0.74% William Rabe (Socialist) 0.11% [9] |
Iowa | Bourke B. Hickenlooper | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | Robert D. Blue (Republican) 56.01% R. F. Mitchell (Democratic) 43.63% Glen Williamson (Prohibition) 0.28% Hugh Bockewitz (Socialist) 0.08% [10] |
Kansas | Andrew F. Schoeppel | Republican | Re-elected, 65.73% | Robert S. Lemon (Democratic) 32.84% David C. White (Prohibition) 1.11% W. W. Tamplin (Socialist) 0.32% [11] |
Maine (held, September 11, 1944) |
Sumner Sewall | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Horace A. Hildreth (Republican) 70.27% Paul Julien (Democratic) 29.73% [12] |
Massachusetts | Leverett Saltonstall | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory | Maurice Tobin (Democratic) 53.64% Horace T. Cahill (Republican) 0.27% Henning A. Blomen (Socialist Labor) 0.27% Guy S. Williams (Prohibition) 0.15% Scattering 0.01% [13] |
Michigan | Harry Kelly | Republican | Re-elected, 54.69% | Edward J. Fry (Democratic) 44.76% Seth A. Davey (Prohibition) 0.26% Forest Odell (Socialist) 0.13% Leland Marion (America First) 0.10% Theos A. Grove (Socialist Labor) 0.06% [14] |
Minnesota | Edward John Thye | Republican | Re-elected, 61.59% | Byron G. Allen (DFL) 37.78% Gerald M. York (Industrial Government) 0.63% [15] |
Missouri | Forrest C. Donnell | Republican | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Phil M. Donnelly (Democratic) 50.94% Jean Paul Bradshaw (Republican) 48.97% W. F. Rinck (Socialist) 0.08% Stephen Tendler (Socialist Labor) 0.01% [16] |
Montana | Sam C. Ford | Republican | Re-elected, 56.36% | Leif Erickson (Democratic) 43.18% Charles R. Miller (Prohibition) 0.47% [17] |
Nebraska | Dwight P. Griswold | Republican | Re-elected, 76.11% | George W. Olsen (Democratic) 23.89% [18] |
New Hampshire | Robert O. Blood | Republican | Lost Republican primary, Republican victory | Charles M. Dale (Republican) 53.11% James J. Powers (Democratic) 46.89% [19] |
New Mexico | John J. Dempsey | Democratic | Re-elected, 51.81% | Carroll G. Gunderson (Republican) 48.19% [20] |
North Carolina | J. Melville Broughton | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | R. Gregg Cherry (Democratic) 69.61% Frank C. Patton (Republican) 30.40% [21] |
North Dakota | John Moses | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | Fred G. Aandahl (Republican) 52.02% William T. Depuy (Democratic) 28.92% Alvin C. Strutz (Independent) 18.81% A. M. Wiley (Prohibition) 0.26% [22] |
Ohio | John W. Bricker | Republican | Retired to run for Vice President of the United States, Democratic victory | Frank J. Lausche (Democratic) 51.82% James Garfield Stewart (Republican) 48.19% [23] |
Rhode Island | J. Howard McGrath | Democratic | Re-elected, 60.65% | Norman D. MacLeod (Republican) 39.35% [24] |
South Dakota | Merrell Q. Sharpe | Republican | Re-elected, 65.51% | Lynn Fellows (Democratic) 34.50% [25] |
Tennessee | Prentice Cooper | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Jim Nance McCord (Democratic) 62.50% John W. Kilgo (Republican) 35.98% John Randolph Neal Jr. (Independent) 1.52% [26] |
Texas | Coke R. Stevenson | Democratic | Re-elected, 90.95% | B. J. Peasley (Republican) 9.05% [27] |
Utah | Herbert B. Maw | Democratic | Re-elected, 50.21% | J. Bracken Lee (Republican) 49.79% [28] |
Vermont | William Henry Wills | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Mortimer Robinson Proctor (Republican) 65.90% Ernest H. Bailey (Democratic) 34.10% [29] |
Washington | Arthur B. Langlie | Republican | Defeated, 48.12% | Monrad Charles Wallgren (Democratic) 51.51% Allen Emerson (Prohibition) 0.20% Henry E. O. Gusey (Socialist Labor) 0.16% [30] |
West Virginia | Matthew M. Neely | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Clarence W. Meadows (Democratic) 54.44% Daniel Boone Dawson (Republican) 45.56% [31] |
Wisconsin | Walter S. Goodland | Republican | Re-elected, 52.84% | Daniel Webster Hoan (Democratic) 40.62% Alexander O. Benz (Progressive) 5.76% George A. Nelson (Socialist) 0.70% Georgia Cozzini (Socialist Labor) 0.09% [32] |
See also
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