Auditor, 1922 Election

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Date: November 7, 1922
Cycle: 1922
Office: Auditor
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Raymond P. (Ray) Chase Man Republican 315,089 49.14 +9.54
Eliza Evans Deming Woman Farmer-Labor 253,913 39.60
John E. Casey Man Democrat 72,157 11.25

Chase was a former Anoka municipal judge (1911-1916) and deputy state Auditor (1916-1921). He would later win the GOP nomination for Governor in 1930, serve in the U.S. House (AL, 1933-1935), was a candidate for U.S. Senate in 1940, and serve as Railroad and Warehouse Commission (1944-1948).

Deming was an attorney from St. Paul and the first woman nominated for the office of Auditor in Minnesota history.

Casey was editor of the Jordan Independent.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1923 (Abstract of Votes Polled for State Officers By Counties).