April_1831_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election

April 1831 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

April 1831 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

Gubernatorial elections were held in Massachusetts April 5, 1831

The first 1831 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 14.

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National Republican Governor Levi Lincoln Jr. was re-elected to a seventh term in office over Democrat Marcus Morton. This was the final regular Massachusetts election scheduled for April before the schedule changed to November, where it remains as of 2024. Lincoln was elected to a reduced term of eight months expiring in January, instead of the typical year-long term ending in May.

General election

Candidates

  • Heman Lincoln (Anti-Masonic)
  • Levi Lincoln Jr., incumbent Governor since 1825 (National Republican)
  • Marcus Morton, Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, former acting Governor and nominee since 1828 (Democratic)
  • Henry Shaw, former U.S. Representative from Lanesborough (Independent)

Campaign

Though the newly established Anti-Masonic Party was not strong enough to nominate a governor, Heman Lincoln and Henry Shaw both ran as independents appealing to Anti-Masonic voters.[1]

Results

The two Anti-Masons carried twenty-eight towns in the central part of the state; Democrats lost ground.[1]

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Darling, Arthur B. (1925). Political Changes in Massachusetts, 1824–1848. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. p. 93.
  2. [2]
    "MA Governor". OurCampaigns. Retrieved May 19, 2021.


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