Auditor, 1894 Election

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Date: November 6, 1894
Cycle: 1894
Office: Auditor
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Robert C. (R.C.) Dunn Man Republican 148,281 51.23 +24.72
Adolph Biermann Incumbent Man Democrat 76,737 26.51
Andrew L. Stromberg Man People's 55,411 19.14
Seth S. Johnson Man Prohibition 9,007 3.11

Auditor Biermann was the first state Auditor to lose at the ballot box in Minnesota history. Biermann and the Democrats unsuccessfully pressured Stromberg to exit the race, but Dunn won an outright majority in the end.

Dunn was a publisher from Princeton (Princeton Union), former Mille Lacs County Attorney (1884-1888), state Representative (HD 39, 1889-1891; HD 46, 1893-1895; HD 45, 1911-1915), Republican nominee for Governor in 1904, and state Senator (SD 55, 1915-1918).

Stromberg was a resident of Washington County.

Johnson was a resident of Cottonwood County.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1895 (p. 465).