For over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee’s white citizenry was divided according to partisan loyalties established in that war. Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee, Kentucky Pennyroyal-allied Macon County, and the five West TennesseeHighland Rim counties of Carroll, Henderson, McNairy, Hardin and Wayne[3] voted Republican – generally by landslide margins – as they saw the Democratic Party as the “war party” who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.[4] Contrariwise, the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state’s secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction.[5]
In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant easily carried the state due to disfranchisement of former confederates and the Ku Klux Klan Act.[6] However, in the year after that election, Tennessee was the first state where Reconstruction was ended, and with the aid of the resurgent Klan, white Democrats rewrote the state’s constitution to regain some of their lost power.[7] Nevertheless, blacks and Unionist whites forged adequate support for the GOP to create a competitive political system during that decade,[8] although the Democratic Party won all statewide elections. However, at the beginning of the 1880s, a divide in the Democratic Party on this issue of payment of state debt allowed the GOP to claim the governor’s mansion,[8] but this did not seriously alter presidential voting and Tennessee was won by General Winfield Scott Hancock (D–Pennsylvania), running with former RepresentativeWilliam Hayden English, with 53.26 percent of the popular vote, against RepresentativeJames A. Garfield (R-Ohio), running with the 10th chairman of the New York State Republican Executive CommitteeChester A. Arthur, with 44.26 percent of the vote.[2]
^ abIn this county where Weaver ran second ahead of Garfield, margin given is Hancock vote minus Weaver vote and percentage margin Hancock percentage minus Weaver percentage.
Referencesedit
^"1880 Presidential Election Results Tennessee Total Population Turnout".
^Lyons, William; Scheb (II), John M. and Stair Billy; Government and Politics in Tennessee, pp. 183-184 ISBN1572331410
^Bergeron, Paul H.; Ash, Stephen V. and Keith, Jeanette; Tennesseans and Their History, p. 175 ISBN1572330562
^Bergeron; Ash, and Keith; Tennesseans and Their History, pp. 176-178
^ abKousser, J. Morgan; The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910, p. 104 ISBN0-300-01973-4
^Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 298-304 ISBN0786422173
^"Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
^"Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote for James B. Weaver". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
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Main article 1880 United States presidential election The 1880 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 2 1880 as part of the 1880 United States presidential election Tennessee voters chose 12 representatives or electors to the Electoral College who voted for president and vice president 2 1880 United States presidential election in Tennessee 1876 November 2 1880 1884 Turnout15 77 of the total population 1 93 pp 1 Nominee Winfield S Hancock James A GarfieldParty Democratic RepublicanHome state Pennsylvania OhioRunning mate William H English Chester A ArthurElectoral vote 12 0Popular vote 129 569 107 677Percentage 53 26 44 26 County Results Hancock 40 50 50 60 60 70 70 80 80 90 Garfield 50 60 60 70 70 80 80 90 President before electionRutherford B HayesRepublican Elected President James GarfieldRepublicanFor over a century after the Civil War Tennessee s white citizenry was divided according to partisan loyalties established in that war Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee Kentucky Pennyroyal allied Macon County and the five West Tennessee Highland Rim counties of Carroll Henderson McNairy Hardin and Wayne 3 voted Republican generally by landslide margins as they saw the Democratic Party as the war party who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight 4 Contrariwise the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state s secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction 5 In 1868 Ulysses S Grant easily carried the state due to disfranchisement of former confederates and the Ku Klux Klan Act 6 However in the year after that election Tennessee was the first state where Reconstruction was ended and with the aid of the resurgent Klan white Democrats rewrote the state s constitution to regain some of their lost power 7 Nevertheless blacks and Unionist whites forged adequate support for the GOP to create a competitive political system during that decade 8 although the Democratic Party won all statewide elections However at the beginning of the 1880s a divide in the Democratic Party on this issue of payment of state debt allowed the GOP to claim the governor s mansion 8 but this did not seriously alter presidential voting and Tennessee was won by General Winfield Scott Hancock D Pennsylvania running with former Representative William Hayden English with 53 26 percent of the popular vote against Representative James A Garfield R Ohio running with the 10th chairman of the New York State Republican Executive Committee Chester A Arthur with 44 26 percent of the vote 2 This would be the last time a Democratic presidential candidate carried Unionist Pennyroyal Macon County until Bill Clinton in 1992 9 Contents 1 Results 1 1 Results by county 2 Notes 3 ReferencesResults edit1880 United States presidential election in Tennessee 2 Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral voteCount Count Democratic Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania William Hayden English of Indiana 129 569 53 26 12 100 00 Republican James A Garfield of Ohio Chester A Arthur of New York 107 677 44 26 0 0 00 Greenback James B Weaver of Iowa Barzillai J Chambers of Texas 6 017 2 47 0 0 00 Total 243 263 100 00 12 100 00 Results by county edit 1880 United States presidential election in Tennessee by county 10 11 County Winfield Scott HancockDemocratic James Abram GarfieldRepublican James Baird WeaverGreenback Margin Total votes cast Anderson 574 35 17 1 058 64 83 0 0 00 484 29 66 1 632Bedford 2 504 56 82 1 766 40 07 137 3 11 738 16 75 4 407Benton 771 56 98 383 28 31 199 14 71 388 28 68 1 353Bledsoe 372 42 91 484 55 82 11 1 27 112 12 92 867Blount 882 35 58 1 597 64 42 0 0 00 715 28 84 2 479Bradley 665 38 26 932 53 62 141 8 11 267 15 36 1 738Campbell 314 23 22 1 038 76 78 0 0 00 724 53 55 1 352Cannon 1 035 67 74 300 19 63 193 12 63 735 48 10 1 528Carroll 1 820 44 91 2 208 54 48 25 0 62 388 9 57 4 053Carter 405 19 77 1 644 80 23 0 0 00 1 239 60 47 2 049Cheatham 794 67 81 291 24 85 86 7 34 503 42 95 1 171Claiborne 967 44 38 1 212 55 62 0 0 00 245 11 24 2 179Clay 567 63 57 177 19 84 148 16 59 390 43 72 892Cocke 906 36 04 1 608 63 96 0 0 00 702 27 92 2 514Coffee 1 766 84 94 198 9 52 115 5 53 1 568 75 42 2 079Cumberland 287 42 33 371 54 72 20 2 95 84 12 39 678Davidson 7 543 52 24 6 449 44 66 448 3 10 1 094 7 58 14 440DeKalb 1 325 60 45 867 39 55 0 0 00 458 20 89 2 192Decatur 753 59 90 413 32 86 91 7 24 340 27 05 1 257Dickson 1 169 62 58 497 26 61 202 10 81 672 35 97 1 868Dyer 1 060 67 39 248 15 77 265 16 85 795 a 50 54 1 573Fayette 2 247 42 17 3 082 57 83 0 0 00 835 15 67 5 329Fentress 314 38 06 511 61 94 0 0 00 197 23 88 825Franklin 2 187 85 43 357 13 95 16 0 63 1 830 71 48 2 560Gibson 2 691 61 28 1 700 38 72 0 0 00 991 22 57 4 391Giles 2 899 57 80 2 040 40 67 77 1 54 859 17 13 5 016Grainger 870 41 39 1 197 56 95 35 1 67 327 15 56 2 102Greene 2 060 45 74 2 303 51 13 141 3 13 243 5 40 4 504Grundy 461 87 98 63 12 02 0 0 00 398 75 95 524Hamblen 848 43 38 1 095 56 01 12 0 61 247 12 63 1 955Hamilton 1 595 38 23 2 460 58 96 117 2 80 865 20 73 4 172Hancock 493 34 21 948 65 79 0 0 00 455 31 58 1 441Hardeman 1 566 49 56 1 409 44 59 185 5 85 157 4 97 3 160Hardin 972 41 84 1 345 57 90 6 0 26 373 16 06 2 323Hawkins 1 039 28 97 1 907 53 18 640 17 85 868 24 21 3 586Haywood 1 766 32 38 3 557 65 22 131 2 40 1 791 32 84 5 454Henderson 1 274 46 23 1 385 50 25 97 3 52 111 4 03 2 756Henry 2 305 66 18 1 013 29 08 165 4 74 1 292 37 09 3 483Hickman 1 157 71 82 392 24 33 62 3 85 765 47 49 1 611Houston 522 80 43 127 19 57 0 0 00 395 60 86 649Humphreys 1 325 80 69 245 14 92 72 4 38 1 080 65 77 1 642Jackson 1 299 88 85 136 9 30 27 1 85 1 163 79 55 1 462James 209 32 86 403 63 36 24 3 77 194 30 50 636Jefferson 693 27 33 1 807 71 25 36 1 42 1 114 43 93 2 536Johnson 203 15 68 1 092 84 32 0 0 00 889 68 65 1 295Knox 3 119 41 61 4 361 58 18 16 0 21 1 242 16 57 7 496Lake 337 84 46 28 7 02 34 8 52 303 a 75 94 399Lauderdale 1 147 52 02 971 44 04 87 3 95 176 7 98 2 205Lawrence 928 71 94 362 28 06 0 0 00 566 43 88 1 290Lewis 200 84 03 37 15 55 1 0 42 163 68 49 238Lincoln 3 652 78 84 886 19 13 94 2 03 2 766 59 72 4 632Loudon 533 34 30 1 021 65 70 0 0 00 488 31 40 1 554Macon 713 54 59 559 42 80 34 2 60 154 11 79 1 306Madison 2 834 54 36 2 223 42 64 156 2 99 611 11 72 5 213Marion 740 45 51 886 54 49 0 0 00 146 8 98 1 626Marshall 2 006 76 04 548 20 77 84 3 18 1 458 55 27 2 638Maury 3 306 54 66 2 742 45 34 0 0 00 564 9 33 6 048McMinn 1 209 45 25 1 463 54 75 0 0 00 254 9 51 2 672McNairy 1 135 46 65 949 39 01 349 14 34 186 7 64 2 433Meigs 607 60 58 395 39 42 0 0 00 212 21 16 1 002Monroe 1 181 56 18 919 43 72 2 0 10 262 12 46 2 102Montgomery 2 846 58 26 2 039 41 74 0 0 00 807 16 52 4 885Morgan 245 36 08 434 63 92 0 0 00 189 27 84 679Obion 1 982 71 22 583 20 95 218 7 83 1 399 50 27 2 783Overton 1 152 72 59 430 27 10 5 0 32 722 45 49 1 587Perry 604 73 04 223 26 96 0 0 00 381 46 07 827Polk 653 64 02 362 35 49 5 0 49 291 28 53 1 020Putnam 1 040 68 92 467 30 95 2 0 13 573 37 97 1 509Rhea 668 61 00 427 39 00 0 0 00 241 22 01 1 095Roane 805 33 02 1 628 66 78 5 0 21 823 33 76 2 438Robertson 2 107 67 55 951 30 49 61 1 96 1 156 37 06 3 119Rutherford 3 855 60 10 2 482 38 70 77 1 20 1 373 21 41 6 414Scott 127 17 91 582 82 09 0 0 00 455 64 17 709Sequatchie 224 64 93 119 34 49 2 0 58 105 30 43 345Sevier 431 17 36 2 052 82 64 0 0 00 1 621 65 28 2 483Shelby 6 927 46 24 7 788 51 99 264 1 76 861 5 75 14 979Smith 1 569 62 16 705 27 93 250 9 90 864 34 23 2 524Stewart 1 322 71 58 488 26 42 37 2 00 834 45 15 1 847Sullivan 2 264 65 23 1 207 34 77 0 0 00 1 057 30 45 3 471Sumner 2 893 72 60 1 092 27 40 0 0 00 1 801 45 19 3 985Tipton 1 893 53 78 1 604 45 57 23 0 65 289 8 21 3 520Trousdale 793 76 25 247 23 75 0 0 00 546 52 50 1 040Union 480 29 63 1 140 70 37 0 0 00 660 40 74 1 620Van Buren 281 82 40 60 17 60 0 0 00 221 64 81 341Warren 1 577 73 52 482 22 47 86 4 01 1 095 51 05 2 145Washington 1 576 42 83 2 104 57 17 0 0 00 528 14 35 3 680Wayne 649 41 76 905 58 24 0 0 00 256 16 47 1 554Weakley 2 526 63 21 1 470 36 79 0 0 00 1 056 26 43 3 996White 1 308 84 01 173 11 11 76 4 88 1 135 72 90 1 557Williamson 2 733 63 94 1 541 36 06 0 0 00 1 192 27 89 4 274Wilson 2 918 68 34 1 227 28 74 125 2 93 1 691 39 60 4 270Totals 129 569 53 26 107 677 44 26 6 017 2 47 21 892 9 00 243 263Notes edit a b In this county where Weaver ran second ahead of Garfield margin given is Hancock vote minus Weaver vote and percentage margin Hancock percentage minus Weaver percentage References edit 1880 Presidential Election Results Tennessee Total Population Turnout a b c 1880 Presidential Election Results Tennessee Wright John K Voting Habits in the United States A Note on Two Maps Geographical Review vol 22 no 4 October 1932 pp 666 672 Key Jr Valdimer Orlando Southern Politics in State and Nation New York 1949 pp 282 283 Lyons William Scheb II John M and Stair Billy Government and Politics in Tennessee pp 183 184 ISBN 1572331410 Bergeron Paul H Ash Stephen V and Keith Jeanette Tennesseans and Their History p 175 ISBN 1572330562 Bergeron Ash and Keith Tennesseans and Their History pp 176 178 a b Kousser J Morgan The Shaping of Southern Politics Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One Party South 1880 1910 p 104 ISBN 0 300 01973 4 Menendez Albert J The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States 1868 2004 pp 298 304 ISBN 0786422173 Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote Geoelections xlsx file for 15 Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote for James B Weaver Geoelections xlsx file for 15 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1880 United States presidential election in Tennessee amp oldid 1173614055, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
