Secretary of State, 1867 Election

General

Date:	November 5, 1867
Cycle:	1867
Office:	Secretary of State
State:	Minnesota
District:	Statewide

Candidate	Gender	Party	Votes	Percent	Margin
Henry Rogers Incumbent	Man	Republican	35,154	54.60	+11.59
Amos Coggswell	Man	Democrat	27,694	43.01
Arba Maynard	Man	Write-In	1,530	2.38

Secretary of State Rogers was reelected to a second term.

Cogswell was a farmer from Aurora, former Republican state Representative (HD 15, 1859-1861) and Speaker of the House, Democratic Secretary of State nominee in 1863, and future state Senator (SD 12, 1872-1876).

Maynard was a former attorney and judge from New York who settled as a farmer in Elysian where he served in the state House (HD 17, 1866-1867; HD 22, 1867-1868). He was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in this 1867 cycle.

Sources

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth Session of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota, 1868 (p. 12).