1919_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election

1919 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

1919 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

Election


The 1919 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1919. This was the last gubernatorial election before the governor's term was extended to two years and the first election following the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women the right to vote.

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Governor Calvin Coolidge was re-elected over Framingham businessman Richard Long in a landslide. This was a rematch of the previous year's contest. Coolidge would be elected Vice President of the United States in 1920 and succeed President Warren Harding upon Harding's death.

Republican primary

Governor

Candidates

Governor Coolidge was unopposed for re-nomination.

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Lieutenant governor

Candidates

Lieutenant Governor Cox was unopposed for the re-nomination.

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Democratic primary

Governor

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Lieutenant governor

Candidates

  • Joseph F. J. Herbert, World War I veteran and former managing editor of the Worcester Evening Post

Herbert was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

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General election

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See also


References

  1. "MA Governor, 1919". Our Campaigns. Retrieved May 25, 2019.

Bibliography

Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth (1920). Election Statistics, 1919. Boston, MA.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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