1907 United States gubernatorial elections
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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1907, in eight states.
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November 5, 1907;
September 17, 1907 (OK); April 21, 1908 (LA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 governorships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland and Mississippi held their gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, preceding the United States presidential election year. New Jersey at this time held gubernatorial elections every 3 years. It would abandon this practice in 1949. Massachusetts and Rhode Island both elected their governors to a single-year term. This was the last time Rhode Island elected its governors to a single-year term, as it switched to two-year-terms from the 1912 election.
Oklahoma held its first gubernatorial election on achieving statehood.
Results
| State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
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| Kentucky | J. C. W. Beckham | Democratic | Term-limited, Republican victory | Augustus E. Willson (Republican) 51.17% S. W. Hager (Democratic) 46.87% L. L. Pickett (Prohibition) 1.52% Claude Andrews (Socialist) 0.36% James H. Arnold (Socialist Labor) 0.09% [1] |
| Louisiana (held, April 21, 1908) | Newton C. Blanchard | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Jared Y. Sanders (Democratic) 87.14% Henry N. Pharr (Republican) 11.05% James Barnes (Socialist) 1.81% [2] Democratic primary results Jared Y. Sanders 56.29% Theodore S. Wilkinson 43.71% [3] |
| Maryland | Edwin Warfield | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Austin Lane Crothers (Democratic) 50.66% George R. Gaither Jr. (Republican) 46.81% James W. Frizzell (Prohibition) 1.88% Ira Culp (Socialist) 0.65% [4] |
| Massachusetts | Curtis Guild Jr. | Republican | Re-elected, 50.33% | Henry M. Whitney (Democratic) 22.58% Thomas L. Hisgen (Independence League) 20.20% Charles W. Bartlett (Anti-Merger) 3.00% John W. Brown (Socialist) 2.04% Hervey S. Cowell (Prohibition) 1.02% Thomas F. Brennan (Socialist Labor) 0.80% [5] |
| Mississippi | James K. Vardaman | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Edmund F. Noel (Democratic) 100.00% [6] Democratic primary run-off results Edmund F. Noel 50.87% Earl Leroy Brewer 49.13% [7][8][9][10] (majority, 2,002)[11][12] |
| New Jersey | Edward C. Stokes | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | John Franklin Fort (Republican) 49.28% Frank S. Katzenbach Jr. (Democratic) 47.25% Frederick Krafft (Socialist) 1.74% James G. Mason (Prohibition) 1.33% John C. Butterworth (Socialist Labor) 0.40% [13] |
| Oklahoma (held, September 17, 1907) | New state | Charles N. Haskell (Democratic) 53.42% Frank Frantz (Republican) 42.81% C. C. Ross (Socialist) 3.78% [14] | ||
| Rhode Island | James H. Higgins | Democratic | Re-elected, 50.37% | Frederick H. Jackson (Republican) 46.90% Louis E. Remington (Prohibition) 1.26% William H. Johnston (Socialist) 1.03% John W. Leach (Socialist Labor) 0.44% [15] |
