Auditor, 1878 Election

General

Date: November 5, 1878
Cycle: 1878
Office: Auditor
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Orlen (O.P.) Whitcomb Incumbent Man Republican 60,059 55.50 +18.43
Mahlon Black Man Democrat 40,119 37.07
Orin H. (O.H.) Page Man Greenback 6,049 5.59
Theodore G. (T.G.) Carter Man Prohibition 856 0.79

Auditor Whitcomb was reelected to a third term.

Black was a resident of Minneapolis, Hennepin County Auditor, former lumberman, former territorial Representative (HD 02, 1849-1850; HD 01, 1852-1853, 1857), and Mayor of Stillwater (1860-1861).

Page was a farmer from Pleasant Grove, former deputy sheriff, justice of the peace, and state Senator (SD 09, 1879-1881).

Carter was a farmer, civil engineer, and surveyor from St. Peter, and the Prohibition Party nominee for Railroad Commissioner in 1877.

Sources

  • New Ulm Review, December 18, 1878 (p. 1). St. Paul Daily Globe, December 14, 1878 (p. 3).