Clerk of the Supreme Court, 1869 Election

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Date: November 2, 1869
Cycle: 1869
Office: Clerk of the Supreme Court
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Sherwood Hough Incumbent Man Republican 29,815 55.75 +12.22
W.T. Bonniwell Man Democrat 23,279 43.53
Alonzo Putnam (A.P.) Connolly Man Temperance 383 0.72

Clerk of the Supreme Court Hough was reelected to a second term.

Bonniwell was a resident of Hutchinson, and former Wisconsin War Democratic state Assemblyman (1864-1865), and Democratic nominee for Railroad Commissioner in 1875. Bonniwell would also later serve as a state Senator (SD 06, 1871; SD 36, 1878-1883) and state Representative (HD 36, 1877-1878).

Connelly was a resident of St. Paul. The Temperance Party was founded in 1868 and held its first convention in St. Paul on October 6, 1869. It would later be known as the Prohibition Party in the state.

Sources

  • Journal of the House of Representatives of the Twelfth Session of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota, 1870 (p. 12).