Clerk of the Supreme Court, 1875 Election
General
Date: | November 2, 1875 |
Cycle: | 1875 |
Office: | Clerk of the Supreme Court |
State: | Minnesota |
District: | Statewide |
Candidate | Gender | Party | Votes | Percent | Margin |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Samuel H. (S.H.) Nichols | Man | Republican | 46,682 | 55.42 | +13.53 |
Archibald (A.A.) McLeod | Man | Democrat | 35,284 | 41.89 | |
Phineas (P.A.) Jewell | Man | Temperance | 1,564 | 1.86 | |
Sherwood Hough Incumbent | Man | Anti-Monopoly | 703 | 0.83 |
Clerk of the Supreme Court Hough was defeated for his party's nomination. He accepted the Anti-Monopoly Party nomination and then became the second incumbent to lose at the ballot box joining Democrat Jacob Noah in 1860.
Nichols was a resident of Otter Tail County and Clerk of the House of Representatives from 1873-1875.
McLeod was a resident of St. Louis County.
Jewell (sometimes referred to as "A.P. Jewell") was a resident of Lake City, 1871 candidate for Supreme Court Associate Justice, and Prohibition candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1877.
Sources
- Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eighteenth Legislature of the State of Minnesota, 1876 (p. 17).