This election was for the Court's Class 1 seat.
Associate Justice Bunn was the ninth Justice to be defeated at the ballot box following appointed Associate Justice Greenleaf Clark in 1881, Republican Associate Justices Daniel Dickinson and Charles Vanderburgh in 1892, and Democratic Associated Justices Thomas Canty, William Mitchell, Daniel Buck in 1898, Republican-turned-Democrat John Lovely in 1904, and Democrat Thomas O'Brien in 1910.
Hallam was an attorney from St. Paul, Second Judicial District Judge, and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 1923's special election and 1924.
Bunn was an attorney from St. Paul and former Second Judicial District Judge. He was appointed to the Court by Governor Adolph Eberhart on February 17, 1911 (taking the oat of office on March 1, 1911) following the death of Associate Justice Edwin Jaggard on February 13, 1911.