1869 Texas lieutenant gubernatorial election

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1869 Texas lieutenant gubernatorial election
← 1866
November 30, 1869
1873 →
 
Nominee James W. Flanagan Wells Thompson
Party Republican Democratic
Alliance Radical Republican
Popular vote 35,461 19,553
Percentage 49.15% 27.10%
 
Nominee Boulds Baker H. R. Latimer
Party Independent Republican
Alliance Conservative Republicans
Popular vote 10,327 6,801
Percentage 14.31% 9.43%
Lieutenant Governor before election

Vacant

 Elected Lieutenant Governor

James W. Flanagan
Republican

The 1869 Texas lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 30, 1869, in order to elect the lieutenant governor of Texas. Republican candidate James W. Flanagan won a four-way race for the office winning with just under 50% of the vote. Flanagan was the first and only Republican to hold the office until Rick Perry was inaugurated in 1999.

Following the end of the Civil War, the federal government required that all formerly Confederate states adopt new state constitutions which abolished slavery in order to rejoin the Union. Texas wrote a constitution in 1866, but it was rejected by Congress and the state was placed under the control of a Reconstruction military district. A second constitution was drafted in 1869 which incorporated more of the reforms sought by the Radical Republicans in Congress. The new document was ratified by a vote in July 1869.[1]

The office of lieutenant governor had been vacant since 1867, after the previous office holder, George Washington Jones, was removed from the office by General Philip Sheridan for being an "impediment to reconstruction".[2]

General Election

Aftermath

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