Secretary of State, 1928 Election

General

Date: November 6, 1928
Cycle: 1928
Office: Secretary of State
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Mike Holm Incumbent Man Republican 625,712 64.67 +46.26
Susie W. Stageberg Woman Farmer-Labor 178,096 18.41
Ruth Haynes Carpenter Woman Democrat 163,771 16.93

This was the first election for Secretary of State with two women nominees.

Secretary of State Holm was reelected to his fifth of 16 terms in his rematch against his chief 1922 and 1924 opponent, Stageberg.

This was the last of three nominations for the office for Stageberg, a resident of Red Wing and "Mother of the Farmer-Labor Party." She would later run as the Progressive nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 1950.

Carpenter, a home economist, was the daughter of former Minneapolis Mayor J.C. Haynes and one of the 'voices' of Betty Crocker in print and in person. Carpenter was the first woman nominated for the office of Secretary of State by the Democrats in Minnesota history. She was also the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 1932.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1929 (Abstract of Votes Polled for State Officers By Counties).