Attorney General, 1892 Election

General

Date: November 8, 1892
Cycle: 1892
Office: Attorney General
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Henry W. (H.W.) Childs Man Republican 108,785 43.31 +7.20
John Nethaway Man Democrat 90,690 36.11
John Louis (J.L.) MacDonald Man People's 37,702 15.01
Robert Taylor Man Prohibition 14,000 5.57

Childs was an attorney from St. Paul.

Nethaway was a defense attorney from Stillwater.

MacDonald was the Democratic nominee for the office in 1871 and was elected to the 50th Congress in 1886, serving one term (CD 03, 1887-1889) before losing his reelection bid in 1888.

Taylor, an attorney in Kasson, was the nominee for both the Prohibition and Alliance parties in 1890.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1893 (p. 467).