Clerk of the Supreme Court Hough was defeated for his party's nomination. He accepted the Anti-Monopoly Party nomination and then became the second incumbent to lose at the ballot box joining Democrat Jacob Noah in 1860.
Nichols was a resident of Otter Tail County and Clerk of the House of Representatives from 1873-1875.
McLeod was a resident of St. Louis County.
Jewell (sometimes referred to as "A.P. Jewell") was a resident of Lake City, 1871 candidate for Supreme Court Associate Justice, and Prohibition candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1877.