Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1892 Election

General

Date: November 8, 1892
Cycle: 1892
Office: Supreme Court Associate Justice
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
William B. Mitchell Incumbent Man Republican-Democrat-Prohibition 163,541 25.99 +9.92
Daniel Buck Man Democrat-People's 113,194 17.99 +1.91
Thomas Canty Man Democrat-People's 109,166 17.35 +1.27
Daniel A. (D.A.) Dickinson Incumbent Man Republican-Prohibition 101,148 16.08
Charles Vanderburgh Incumbent Man Republican-Prohibition 100,064 15.90
William N. Davidson Man People's 42,084 6.69

This election was for terms beginning in January 1894.

Associate Justice Mitchell was reelected to a fourth term.

Dickinson and Vanderburgh were the second and third Justices to be defeated at the ballot box following appointed Associate Justice Greenleaf Clark in 1881.

Buck was an attorney from Mankato, Democratic nominee for Secretary of State in 1861, former state Representative (HD 17, 1866-1867), state Senator (SD 14, 1879-1883), and Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 1888. Buck resigned effective November 18, 1899 due to ill health and the health of his wife. Governor John Lind appointed Calvin Brown to fill the vacancy on November 20, 1899. Brown was a resident of Morris, former Stevens County Attorney, former Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District, and winner of one of the three seats for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on the ballot in 1898.

Canty was an attorney from Minneapolis and a sitting Hennepin County District Judge (1891-1893).

Davidson was a Luverne city attorney and Rock County Judge of Probate.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1893 (p. 467).