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).