Lieutenant Governor, 1904 Election

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Date: November 8, 1904
Cycle: 1904
Office: Lieutenant Governor
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Ray W. Jones Incumbent Man Republican 155,014 54.13 +14.87
Fendall G. Winston Man Democrat 112,419 39.26
Jorgen (J.F.) Heiberg Man Prohibition 10,283 3.59
Ole (O.E.) Lofthus Man Public Ownership 8,657 3.02

Jones was reelected to a second term.

Winston was a resident of Minneapolis, president of two contractor firms and a wholesale grocery business, and Democratic nominee for SD 40 in 1902.

Heiberg was a resident of Heiberg and the Prohibition nominee for the 7th CD in 1906. He would also win the Prohibition nomination for Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner in 1906 and Governor in 1910 and lost the nonpartisan SD 64 general election in 1926.

Loftus was a manager of a lumber and hardware firm in Shelly and former People's Party member.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1905 (p. 507).