Secretary of State, 1890 Election

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Date: November 4, 1890
Cycle: 1890
Office: Secretary of State
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Fred P. Brown Man Republican 96,163 40.33 +3.50
Axel (A.T.) Lindholm Man Democrat 87,816 36.83
Michael Wesenberg Man Farmers' Alliance 45,100 18.92
Hans (H.S.) Hilleboe Man Prohibition 9,352 3.92

Brown was a Norwegian-born Register of Deeds for Faribault County (1872-1890) and resident of Blue Earth City.

Lindholm was a Stillwater merchant and notary public who had previously founded a bank with Secretary of State Hans Mattson in St. Paul in the 1870s.

Wesenberg was a Norwegian-born newspaperman from Duluth and Midroad Populist nominee for Secretary of State in 1898.

Hilleboe, a professor and principal at the Minnesota Lutheran Seminary and Institute in Willmar, was later the Prohibition Party nominee for governor in 1894.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1891 (p. 557).