U.S. Senate, 1875 Election

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Date: February 19, 1875
Cycle: 1875
Office: U.S. Senate
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Samuel J.R. (S.J.R.) McMillan Man Republican 82 56.55 +14.48
William Lochren Man Democrat 61 42.07
Gordon E. Cole Man Republican 1 0.69
Amos Coggswell Man Democrat 1 0.69

Elected by the state legislature in a joint convention.

McMillan was a former Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court (1864-1874) and sitting Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court (1874-1875).

Lochren was an attorney from Saint Anthony, former state Senator (SD 04, 1869-1871), and candidate for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1874.

Cole was an attorney from Faribault, former state Attorney General (1860-1866), and former state Senator (SD 08, 1866-1867) who later served in the state House (HD 20, 1883-1885).

Coggswell was a former Republican state Representative (HD 15, 1859-1861) and Democratic nominee for Secretary of State in 1865 and 1867.

Sources

  • Journal of the House of Representatives of the Seventeenth Session of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota, 1875 (p. 300).