Secretary of State, 1875 Election

General

Date:	November 2, 1875
Cycle:	1875
Office:	Secretary of State
State:	Minnesota
District:	Statewide

Candidate	Gender	Party	Votes	Percent	Margin
John S. Irgens	Man	Republican	44,820	55.81	+13.51
Adolph Biermann	Man	Democrat-Anti-Monopoly	33,969	42.30
John H. Stevens	Man	Temperance	1,521	1.89

Irgens was a farmer from Lyle and former state Representative (HD 04, 1875-1876).

Biermann was Olmsted County Auditor for six years (1875-1880). He was the Democratic Party's unsuccsessful nominee for governor in 1883 and elected Minnesota Auditor in 1890. Biermann was nominated by the Democrats and then later nominated by the Anti-Monopolists.

Stevens was a farmer from Glencoe and editor of the Farmer's Union who served in the state House (HD 18, 1857-1859; HD 06, 1862-1863; HD 26, 1876-1877) and state Senate (SD 18, 1859-1861). He was the Temperance nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 1869 and Democratic-Anti-Monopoly nominee for Secretary of State in 1873.

Sources

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eighteenth Legislature of the State of Minnesota, 1876 (p. 16).