Attorney General, 1894 Election
General
Date: | November 6, 1894 |
Cycle: | 1894 |
Office: | Attorney General |
State: | Minnesota |
District: | Statewide |
Candidate | Gender | Party | Votes | Percent | Margin |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Henry W. (H.W.) Childs Incumbent | Man | Republican | 150,529 | 52.43 | +29.13 |
William Brackenridge | Man | Democrat | 66,905 | 23.30 | |
John Louis (J.L.) MacDonald | Man | People's | 60,265 | 20.99 | |
Robert Taylor | Man | Prohibition | 9,400 | 3.27 |
Childs was reelected to a second term.
Brackenridge was elected Olmsted County Attorney in 1888 and 1890.
MacDonald was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General in 1871, a former U.S. Representative (CD 03, 1887-1889), and the Peoples' nominee for Attorney General in 1892.
Taylor was an attorney in Kasson, the Prohibition-Alliance nominee for the office in 1890, and the Prohibition nominee again in 1892.
Sources
- The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1895 (p. 467).