Attorney General, 1946 Election

General

Date: November 5, 1946
Cycle: 1946
Office: Attorney General
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Joseph Alfred Arner (J.A.A.) Burnquist Incumbent Man Republican 526,331 61.77 +23.54
Walter Boland Man Democratic-Farmer-Labor 325,764 38.23

Attorney General Burnquist was reelected to a fifth term, joining Republican Clifford Hilton (1918, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1926) as the only Minnesotan to win election to the office five times. Burnquist was the first nominee to receive more than 60 percent of the vote since Attorney General Lyndon Smith ran unopposed in 1916.

Boland was a Minneapolis attorney residing in St. Paul.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1947 (p. 360).