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1908 United States presidential election in Georgia

February 15, 2024

Main article: 1908 United States presidential election

The 1908 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 3, 1908, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1908 United States presidential election in Georgia
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Nominee William Jennings Bryan William Howard Taft Thomas E. Watson
Party Democratic Republican Populist
Home state Nebraska Ohio Georgia
Running mate John W. Kern James S. Sherman Samuel Williams
Electoral vote 13 0 0
Popular vote 72,350 41,355 16,687
Percentage 54.60% 31.21% 12.59%
County Results

Following Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen, doing so in the early 1870s.[1] This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns.[2] The Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction, and the main competition became Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.[3]

However, politics after the first demobilization by a cumulative poll tax was chaotic. Third-party movements, chiefly the Populist Party, gained support amongst poor whites and the remaining black voters in opposition to the planter elite.[4] The fact that Georgia had already substantially reduced its poor white and black electorate two decades ago, alongside pressure from urban elites in Atlanta,[4] meant the Populist movement substantially faded in the late 1890s.[5] Nevertheless, this did not prevent demands for more complete disenfranchisement after the state's politics again turned chaotic as former vice-presidential candidate Thomas E. Watson attempted to revive the Populist Party in 1904, whilst Hoke Smith ran for Governor as a radical reformist in 1906.[6]

Georgia was won by the Democratic nominees, former Nebraska Congressman and two-time prior Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan and his running mate John W. Kern of Indiana. They defeated the Republican candidates, United States Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio and his running James S. Sherman of New York. Bryan won the state by a margin of 23.39%.

The aim of co-opting the Populists led Georgia to become the last former Confederate state to initiate a full-scale disenfranchisement plan to largely eliminate the seventy thousand or so blacks who remained on the rolls.[7] The process, involving a literacy test and a grandfather clause in addition to the poll tax, alongside statewide white primaries, was achieved in the next presidential election year, when a transformed Watson ran for the Populist Party on a white supremacist campaign. At the same time the Republican Party aimed to make gains in the South because of opposition by developing manufacturers to William Jennings Bryan’s populism,[8] and by nominee William Howard Taft’s willingness to accept black disfranchisement.[9]

At the beginning of September, Taft spoke of carrying Georgia and other southern states, though this idea was dismissed by Democratic committee members.[10] Polls, when taken in October, always suggested Bryan would win the state, though by a smaller margin than usual.[11] This was indeed the observed result, although anti-populist sentiment[8] resulted in the GOP carrying twelve secessionist upcountry counties that had never gone Republican before.[12] Watson fell substantially from his 1904 performance, and would disband the Populist Party after the election.

Bryan had previously won Georgia against William McKinley in both 1896 and 1900.

Results edit

1908 United States presidential election in Georgia[13]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 72,350 54.60% 13
Republican William Howard Taft 41,355 31.21% 0
People's Thomas E. Watson 16,687 12.59% 0
Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin 1,452 1.10% 0
Socialist Eugene V. Debs 584 0.44% 0
Independence Thomas L. Hisgen 76 0.06% 0

Results by county edit

County William Jennings Bryan[14]
Democratic 		William Howard Taft[14]
Republican 		Thomas Edward Watson[14]
Populist 		Eugene Wilder Chafin[14]
Prohibition 		Various candidates[14]
Other parties 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Appling 249 33.51% 250 33.65% 244 32.84% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -1 -0.13% 743
Baker 149 69.63% 36 16.82% 29 13.55% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 113 52.80% 214
Baldwin 417 59.57% 201 28.71% 74 10.57% 8 1.14% 0 0.00% 216 30.86% 700
Banks 211 36.38% 221 38.10% 147 25.34% 1 0.17% 0 0.00% -10 -1.72% 580
Bartow 726 45.60% 780 48.99% 73 4.59% 11 0.69% 2 0.13% -54 -3.39% 1,592
Ben Hill 407 41.87% 412 42.39% 49 5.04% 104 10.70% 0 0.00% -5 -0.51% 972
Berrien 595 66.70% 212 23.77% 64 7.17% 19 2.13% 2 0.22% 383 42.94% 892
Bibb 1,946 75.46% 565 21.91% 51 1.98% 14 0.54% 3 0.12% 1,381 53.55% 2,579
Brooks 472 49.89% 362 38.27% 103 10.89% 4 0.42% 5 0.53% 110 11.63% 946
Bulloch 756 69.36% 116 10.64% 218 20.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 538[a] 49.36% 1,090
Burke 519 66.37% 193 24.68% 70 8.95% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 326 41.69% 782
Butts 348 53.46% 167 25.65% 131 20.12% 5 0.77% 0 0.00% 181 27.80% 651
Calhoun 272 65.70% 106 25.60% 33 7.97% 0 0.00% 3 0.72% 166 40.10% 414
Camden 181 43.20% 233 55.61% 1 0.24% 4 0.95% 0 0.00% -52 -12.41% 419
Campbell 210 45.06% 140 30.04% 116 24.89% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 70 15.02% 466
Carroll 917 51.32% 505 28.26% 356 19.92% 4 0.22% 5 0.28% 412 23.06% 1,787
Catoosa 317 59.03% 213 39.66% 4 0.74% 3 0.56% 0 0.00% 104 19.37% 537
Charlton 124 67.03% 53 28.65% 2 1.08% 6 3.24% 0 0.00% 71 38.38% 185
Chatham 3,305 72.54% 1,209 26.54% 17 0.37% 18 0.40% 7 0.15% 2,096 46.01% 4,556
Chattahoochee 111 45.12% 118 47.97% 17 6.91% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -7 -2.85% 246
Chattooga 437 36.39% 716 59.62% 28 2.33% 9 0.75% 11 0.92% -279 -23.23% 1,201
Cherokee 326 29.32% 665 59.80% 100 8.99% 6 0.54% 15 1.35% -339 -30.49% 1,112
Clarke 720 70.24% 207 20.20% 96 9.37% 2 0.20% 0 0.00% 513 50.05% 1,025
Clay 242 54.14% 161 36.02% 42 9.40% 2 0.45% 0 0.00% 81 18.12% 447
Clayton 248 42.61% 223 38.32% 99 17.01% 11 1.89% 1 0.17% 25 4.30% 582
Clinch 202 54.45% 157 42.32% 11 2.96% 1 0.27% 0 0.00% 45 12.13% 371
Cobb 889 54.54% 548 33.62% 174 10.67% 18 1.10% 1 0.06% 341 20.92% 1,630
Coffee 534 54.60% 382 39.06% 54 5.52% 2 0.20% 6 0.61% 152 15.54% 978
Colquitt 390 46.10% 125 14.78% 327 38.65% 0 0.00% 4 0.47% 63[a] 7.45% 846
Columbia 144 42.11% 12 3.51% 185 54.09% 1 0.29% 0 0.00% -41[a] -11.99% 342
Coweta 1,032 81.13% 220 17.30% 19 1.49% 1 0.08% 0 0.00% 812 63.84% 1,272
Crawford 285 83.58% 24 7.04% 32 9.38% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 253[a] 74.19% 341
Crisp 452 65.04% 206 29.64% 36 5.18% 0 0.00% 1 0.14% 246 35.40% 695
Dade 228 71.47% 72 22.57% 7 2.19% 0 0.00% 12 3.76% 156 48.90% 319
Dawson 125 35.31% 219 61.86% 5 1.41% 5 1.41% 0 0.00% -94 -26.55% 354
De Kalb 740 54.37% 356 26.16% 218 16.02% 43 3.16% 4 0.29% 384 28.21% 1,361
Decatur 782 53.75% 537 36.91% 131 9.00% 4 0.27% 1 0.07% 245 16.84% 1,455
Dodge 544 69.57% 177 22.63% 44 5.63% 1 0.13% 16 2.05% 367 46.93% 782
Dooly 507 58.48% 271 31.26% 87 10.03% 2 0.23% 0 0.00% 236 27.22% 867
Dougherty 583 78.05% 158 21.15% 6 0.80% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 425 56.89% 747
Douglas 152 28.95% 181 34.48% 187 35.62% 4 0.76% 1 0.19% -6[b] -1.14% 525
Early 375 53.65% 173 24.75% 136 19.46% 3 0.43% 12 1.72% 202 28.90% 699
Echols 140 90.32% 15 9.68% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 125 80.65% 155
Effingham 302 67.56% 89 19.91% 55 12.30% 1 0.22% 0 0.00% 213 47.65% 447
Elbert 714 62.63% 103 9.04% 305 26.75% 18 1.58% 0 0.00% 409[a] 35.88% 1,140
Emanuel 549 35.19% 530 33.97% 473 30.32% 8 0.51% 0 0.00% 19 1.22% 1,560
Fannin 420 38.15% 681 61.85% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -261 -23.71% 1,101
Fayette 338 51.76% 162 24.81% 151 23.12% 0 0.00% 2 0.31% 176 26.95% 653
Floyd 1,204 58.82% 677 33.07% 138 6.74% 25 1.22% 3 0.15% 527 25.74% 2,047
Forsyth 150 26.04% 345 59.90% 79 13.72% 1 0.17% 1 0.17% -195 -33.85% 576
Franklin 379 39.07% 253 26.08% 329 33.92% 9 0.93% 0 0.00% 50[a] 5.15% 970
Fulton 4,790 58.89% 2,906 35.73% 190 2.34% 165 2.03% 83 1.02% 1,884 23.16% 8,134
Gilmer 360 40.63% 519 58.58% 4 0.45% 3 0.34% 0 0.00% -159 -17.95% 886
Glascock 63 16.45% 52 13.58% 264 68.93% 4 1.04% 0 0.00% -201[a] -52.48% 383
Glynn 467 59.95% 298 38.25% 12 1.54% 2 0.26% 0 0.00% 169 21.69% 779
Gordon 476 40.00% 615 51.68% 97 8.15% 1 0.08% 1 0.08% -139 -11.68% 1,190
Grady 463 48.79% 238 25.08% 215 22.66% 33 3.48% 0 0.00% 225 23.71% 949
Greene 412 38.58% 428 40.07% 201 18.82% 25 2.34% 2 0.19% -16 -1.50% 1,068
Gwinnett 677 41.01% 541 32.77% 392 23.74% 38 2.30% 3 0.18% 136 8.24% 1,651
Habersham 364 52.45% 230 33.14% 77 11.10% 17 2.45% 6 0.86% 134 19.31% 694
Hall 707 47.74% 634 42.81% 94 6.35% 33 2.23% 13 0.88% 73 4.93% 1,481
Hancock 457 74.80% 80 13.09% 71 11.62% 2 0.33% 1 0.16% 377 61.70% 611
Haralson 252 28.03% 506 56.28% 106 11.79% 23 2.56% 12 1.33% -254 -28.25% 899
Harris 556 76.37% 94 12.91% 77 10.58% 1 0.14% 0 0.00% 462 63.46% 728
Hart 408 50.43% 192 23.73% 200 24.72% 5 0.62% 4 0.49% 208[a] 25.71% 809
Heard 203 83.88% 5 2.07% 34 14.05% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 169[a] 69.83% 242
Henry 369 57.57% 194 30.27% 27 4.21% 51 7.96% 0 0.00% 175 27.30% 641
Houston 855 81.58% 27 2.58% 0 0.00% 166 15.84% 0 0.00% 689[c] 65.74% 1,048
Irwin 388 65.54% 174 29.39% 30 5.07% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 214 36.15% 592
Jackson 735 49.70% 406 27.45% 323 21.84% 12 0.81% 3 0.20% 329 22.24% 1,479
Jasper 557 75.27% 155 20.95% 28 3.78% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 402 54.32% 740
Jeff Davis 172 50.74% 156 46.02% 11 3.24% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 16 4.72% 339
Jefferson 373 50.54% 361 48.92% 0 0.00% 4 0.54% 0 0.00% 12 1.63% 738
Jenkins 188 59.31% 53 16.72% 76 23.97% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 112[a] 35.33% 317
Johnson 135 20.61% 162 24.73% 355 54.20% 3 0.46% 0 0.00% -193[b] -29.47% 655
Jones 385 52.38% 322 43.81% 28 3.81% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 63 8.57% 735
Laurens 957 41.90% 730 31.96% 594 26.01% 0 0.00% 3 0.13% 227 9.94% 2,284
Lee 337 56.54% 252 42.28% 7 1.17% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 85 14.26% 596
Liberty 219 27.65% 412 52.02% 160 20.20% 1 0.13% 0 0.00% -193 -24.37% 792
Lincoln 157 38.11% 1 0.24% 249 60.44% 5 1.21% 0 0.00% -92[a] -22.33% 412
Lowndes 681 73.46% 154 16.61% 58 6.26% 31 3.34% 3 0.32% 527 56.85% 927
Lumpkin 261 54.49% 218 45.51% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 43 8.98% 479
Macon 350 51.47% 196 28.82% 131 19.26% 3 0.44% 0 0.00% 154 22.65% 680
Madison 560 68.29% 170 20.73% 89 10.85% 0 0.00% 1 0.12% 390 47.56% 820
Marion 217 47.07% 155 33.62% 89 19.31% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 62 13.45% 461
McDuffie 157 30.78% 25 4.90% 323 63.33% 5 0.98% 0 0.00% -166[a] -32.55% 510
McIntosh 147 47.73% 161 52.27% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -14 -4.55% 308
Meriwether 683 67.42% 211 20.83% 115 11.35% 4 0.39% 0 0.00% 472 46.59% 1,013
Miller 161 70.61% 23 10.09% 44 19.30% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 117[a] 51.32% 228
Milton 182 51.41% 120 33.90% 50 14.12% 2 0.56% 0 0.00% 62 17.51% 354
Mitchell 555 57.99% 196 20.48% 205 21.42% 1 0.10% 0 0.00% 350[a] 36.57% 957
Monroe 456 54.55% 162 19.38% 217 25.96% 0 0.00% 1 0.12% 239[a] 28.59% 836
Montgomery 414 46.99% 254 28.83% 213 24.18% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 160 18.16% 881
Morgan 462 64.44% 187 26.08% 66 9.21% 2 0.28% 0 0.00% 275 38.35% 717
Murray 312 34.32% 539 59.30% 20 2.20% 0 0.00% 38 4.18% -227 -24.97% 909
Muscogee 1,599 72.95% 459 20.94% 10 0.46% 0 0.00% 124 5.66% 1,140 52.01% 2,192
Newton 643 63.98% 303 30.15% 48 4.78% 11 1.09% 0 0.00% 340 33.83% 1,005
Oconee 136 31.85% 51 11.94% 240 56.21% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -104[a] -24.36% 427
Oglethorpe 495 73.44% 67 9.94% 112 16.62% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 383[a] 56.82% 674
Paulding 256 23.75% 630 58.44% 188 17.44% 3 0.28% 1 0.09% -374 -34.69% 1,078
Pickens 187 20.22% 731 79.03% 3 0.32% 4 0.43% 0 0.00% -544 -58.81% 925
Pierce 295 57.06% 150 29.01% 72 13.93% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 145 28.05% 517
Pike 727 67.44% 230 21.34% 121 11.22% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 497 46.10% 1,078
Polk 492 33.24% 901 60.88% 74 5.00% 10 0.68% 3 0.20% -409 -27.64% 1,480
Pulaski 651 79.20% 107 13.02% 64 7.79% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 544 66.18% 822
Putnam 410 91.93% 20 4.48% 16 3.59% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 390 87.44% 446
Quitman 87 47.03% 31 16.76% 66 35.68% 1 0.54% 0 0.00% 21[a] 11.35% 185
Rabun 233 55.88% 171 41.01% 13 3.12% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 62 14.87% 417
Randolph 522 53.65% 366 37.62% 83 8.53% 0 0.00% 2 0.21% 156 16.03% 973
Richmond 1,727 70.55% 267 10.91% 345 14.09% 0 0.00% 109 4.45% 1,382[a] 56.45% 2,448
Rockdale 352 57.52% 172 28.10% 87 14.22% 0 0.00% 1 0.16% 180 29.41% 612
Schley 219 47.82% 173 37.77% 64 13.97% 2 0.44% 0 0.00% 46 10.04% 458
Screven 355 30.90% 428 37.25% 357 31.07% 9 0.78% 0 0.00% 71[b] 6.18% 1,149
Spalding 725 73.08% 199 20.06% 29 2.92% 22 2.22% 17 1.71% 526 53.02% 992
Stephens 306 51.52% 261 43.94% 27 4.55% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 45 7.58% 594
Stewart 415 61.12% 241 35.49% 23 3.39% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 174 25.63% 679
Sumter 876 62.93% 476 34.20% 36 2.59% 4 0.29% 0 0.00% 400 28.74% 1,392
Talbot 408 69.39% 129 21.94% 44 7.48% 5 0.85% 2 0.34% 279 47.45% 588
Taliaferro 235 40.10% 216 36.86% 130 22.18% 0 0.00% 5 0.85% 19 3.24% 586
Tattnall 534 42.82% 263 21.09% 432 34.64% 18 1.44% 0 0.00% 102[a] 8.18% 1,247
Taylor 253 44.00% 159 27.65% 163 28.35% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 90[a] 15.65% 575
Telfair 613 70.54% 29 3.34% 0 0.00% 227 26.12% 0 0.00% 386[c] 44.42% 869
Terrell 528 73.03% 142 19.64% 53 7.33% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 386 53.39% 723
Thomas 765 42.43% 723 40.10% 308 17.08% 7 0.39% 0 0.00% 42 2.33% 1,803
Tift 450 68.70% 99 15.11% 104 15.88% 0 0.00% 2 0.31% 346[a] 52.82% 655
Toombs 282 48.37% 200 34.31% 98 16.81% 3 0.51% 0 0.00% 82 14.07% 583
Towns 196 40.08% 291 59.51% 2 0.41% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -95 -19.43% 489
Troup 714 68.13% 45 4.29% 287 27.39% 2 0.19% 0 0.00% 427[a] 40.74% 1,048
Turner 276 50.46% 105 19.20% 137 25.05% 22 4.02% 7 1.28% 139[a] 25.41% 547
Twiggs 301 76.20% 73 18.48% 21 5.32% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 228 57.72% 395
Union 344 44.85% 418 54.50% 5 0.65% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -74 -9.65% 767
Upson 369 48.36% 145 19.00% 249 32.63% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 120[a] 15.73% 763
Walker 754 43.61% 925 53.50% 32 1.85% 6 0.35% 12 0.69% -171 -9.89% 1,729
Walton 727 53.93% 389 28.86% 225 16.69% 6 0.45% 1 0.07% 338 25.07% 1,348
Ware 771 76.49% 190 18.85% 12 1.19% 16 1.59% 19 1.88% 581 57.64% 1,008
Warren 158 26.92% 166 28.28% 257 43.78% 4 0.68% 2 0.34% -91[b] -15.50% 587
Washington 630 45.78% 267 19.40% 479 34.81% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 151[a] 10.97% 1,376
Wayne 394 65.34% 144 23.88% 34 5.64% 30 4.98% 1 0.17% 250 41.46% 603
Webster 114 44.36% 117 45.53% 26 10.12% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -3 -1.17% 257
White 121 35.59% 183 53.82% 36 10.59% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -62 -18.24% 340
Whitfield 586 40.05% 775 52.97% 36 2.46% 6 0.41% 60 4.10% -189 -12.92% 1,463
Wilcox 380 72.66% 120 22.94% 22 4.21% 1 0.19% 0 0.00% 260 49.71% 523
Wilkes 557 65.53% 65 7.65% 216 25.41% 12 1.41% 0 0.00% 341[a] 40.12% 850
Wilkinson 280 71.61% 55 14.07% 55 14.07% 1 0.26% 0 0.00% 225 57.54% 391
Worth 457 48.36% 237 25.08% 251 26.56% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 206[a] 21.80% 945
Totals 72,350 54.60% 41,355 31.21% 16,687 12.59% 1,452 1.10% 660 0.50% 30,995 23.39% 132,504

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab In this county where Taft ran third behind Bryan and Watson, margin given is Bryan vote minus Watson vote and percentage margin Bryan percentage minus Watson percentage.
  2. ^ a b c d In this county where Bryan ran third behind both Taft and Watson, margin given is Taft vote minus Watson vote and percentage margin Taft percentage minsu Watson percentage.
  3. ^ a b In this county where Chafin ran second ahead of both Taft and Watson, margin given is Bryan vote minus Chafin vote and percentage margin Bryan percentage minus Chafin percentage.

References edit

  1. ^ Mickey, Robert W.; Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972, p. 76 ISBN 1400838789
  2. ^ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 ISBN 9780691163246
  3. ^ Springer, Melanie Jean; How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000, p. 155 ISBN 022611435X
  4. ^ a b Mickey, Robert W.; ‘The Beginning of the End for Authoritarian Rule in America: Smith v. Allwright and the Abolition of the White Primary in the Deep South, 1944-1948’; Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 22 (Fall 2008), pp. 143-182.
  5. ^ Perman, Michael; Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908; p. 274 ISBN 0807860255
  6. ^ Perman; Struggle for Mastery, p. 283
  7. ^ Perman; Struggle for Mastery, p. 297
  8. ^ a b Tindall, George B.; ‘Southern Strategy: A Historical Perspective’; North Carolina Historical Review; vol. 48, no. 2 (April 1971), pp. 126-141
  9. ^ de Santis, Vincent P.; ‘Republican Efforts to “Crack” the Democratic South’; The Review of Politics, vol. 14, no. 2 (April 1952), pp. 244-264
  10. ^ ‘Just Nonsense, Says Howell: So Georgia Editor Styles Talk of Taft Carrying Georgia’; The Atlanta Constitution, September 8, 1908, p. 2
  11. ^ ‘Situation Complicated: In Georgia and Taft Men Talk Seriously of Carrying the State’; Cincinnati Enquirer; October 18, 1908, p. 27
  12. ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 39 ISBN 0786422173
  13. ^ Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; 1908 Presidential General Election Results – Georgia
  14. ^ a b c d e Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1908 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)

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Main article 1908 United States presidential election The 1908 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 3 1908 as part of the wider United States presidential election Voters chose 13 representatives or electors to the Electoral College who voted for president and vice president 1908 United States presidential election in Georgia 1904 November 3 1908 1908 11 03 1912 Nominee William Jennings Bryan William Howard Taft Thomas E WatsonParty Democratic Republican PopulistHome state Nebraska Ohio GeorgiaRunning mate John W Kern James S Sherman Samuel WilliamsElectoral vote 13 0 0Popular vote 72 350 41 355 16 687Percentage 54 60 31 21 12 59 County Results Bryan 30 40 40 50 50 60 60 70 70 80 80 90 90 100 Taft 30 40 40 50 50 60 60 70 70 80 Watson 30 40 40 50 50 60 60 70 President before electionTheodore RooseveltRepublican Elected President William Howard TaftRepublicanFollowing Reconstruction Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen doing so in the early 1870s 1 This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens Gilmer and Towns 2 The Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction and the main competition became Democratic primaries which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club 3 However politics after the first demobilization by a cumulative poll tax was chaotic Third party movements chiefly the Populist Party gained support amongst poor whites and the remaining black voters in opposition to the planter elite 4 The fact that Georgia had already substantially reduced its poor white and black electorate two decades ago alongside pressure from urban elites in Atlanta 4 meant the Populist movement substantially faded in the late 1890s 5 Nevertheless this did not prevent demands for more complete disenfranchisement after the state s politics again turned chaotic as former vice presidential candidate Thomas E Watson attempted to revive the Populist Party in 1904 whilst Hoke Smith ran for Governor as a radical reformist in 1906 6 Georgia was won by the Democratic nominees former Nebraska Congressman and two time prior Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan and his running mate John W Kern of Indiana They defeated the Republican candidates United States Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio and his running James S Sherman of New York Bryan won the state by a margin of 23 39 The aim of co opting the Populists led Georgia to become the last former Confederate state to initiate a full scale disenfranchisement plan to largely eliminate the seventy thousand or so blacks who remained on the rolls 7 The process involving a literacy test and a grandfather clause in addition to the poll tax alongside statewide white primaries was achieved in the next presidential election year when a transformed Watson ran for the Populist Party on a white supremacist campaign At the same time the Republican Party aimed to make gains in the South because of opposition by developing manufacturers to William Jennings Bryan s populism 8 and by nominee William Howard Taft s willingness to accept black disfranchisement 9 At the beginning of September Taft spoke of carrying Georgia and other southern states though this idea was dismissed by Democratic committee members 10 Polls when taken in October always suggested Bryan would win the state though by a smaller margin than usual 11 This was indeed the observed result although anti populist sentiment 8 resulted in the GOP carrying twelve secessionist upcountry counties that had never gone Republican before 12 Watson fell substantially from his 1904 performance and would disband the Populist Party after the election Bryan had previously won Georgia against William McKinley in both 1896 and 1900 Contents 1 Results 1 1 Results by county 2 See also 3 Notes 4 ReferencesResults edit1908 United States presidential election in Georgia 13 Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votesDemocratic William Jennings Bryan 72 350 54 60 13Republican William Howard Taft 41 355 31 21 0People s Thomas E Watson 16 687 12 59 0Prohibition Eugene W Chafin 1 452 1 10 0Socialist Eugene V Debs 584 0 44 0Independence Thomas L Hisgen 76 0 06 0Results by county edit County William Jennings Bryan 14 Democratic William Howard Taft 14 Republican Thomas Edward Watson 14 Populist Eugene Wilder Chafin 14 Prohibition Various candidates 14 Other parties Margin Total votes cast Appling 249 33 51 250 33 65 244 32 84 0 0 00 0 0 00 1 0 13 743Baker 149 69 63 36 16 82 29 13 55 0 0 00 0 0 00 113 52 80 214Baldwin 417 59 57 201 28 71 74 10 57 8 1 14 0 0 00 216 30 86 700Banks 211 36 38 221 38 10 147 25 34 1 0 17 0 0 00 10 1 72 580Bartow 726 45 60 780 48 99 73 4 59 11 0 69 2 0 13 54 3 39 1 592Ben Hill 407 41 87 412 42 39 49 5 04 104 10 70 0 0 00 5 0 51 972Berrien 595 66 70 212 23 77 64 7 17 19 2 13 2 0 22 383 42 94 892Bibb 1 946 75 46 565 21 91 51 1 98 14 0 54 3 0 12 1 381 53 55 2 579Brooks 472 49 89 362 38 27 103 10 89 4 0 42 5 0 53 110 11 63 946Bulloch 756 69 36 116 10 64 218 20 00 0 0 00 0 0 00 538 a 49 36 1 090Burke 519 66 37 193 24 68 70 8 95 0 0 00 0 0 00 326 41 69 782Butts 348 53 46 167 25 65 131 20 12 5 0 77 0 0 00 181 27 80 651Calhoun 272 65 70 106 25 60 33 7 97 0 0 00 3 0 72 166 40 10 414Camden 181 43 20 233 55 61 1 0 24 4 0 95 0 0 00 52 12 41 419Campbell 210 45 06 140 30 04 116 24 89 0 0 00 0 0 00 70 15 02 466Carroll 917 51 32 505 28 26 356 19 92 4 0 22 5 0 28 412 23 06 1 787Catoosa 317 59 03 213 39 66 4 0 74 3 0 56 0 0 00 104 19 37 537Charlton 124 67 03 53 28 65 2 1 08 6 3 24 0 0 00 71 38 38 185Chatham 3 305 72 54 1 209 26 54 17 0 37 18 0 40 7 0 15 2 096 46 01 4 556Chattahoochee 111 45 12 118 47 97 17 6 91 0 0 00 0 0 00 7 2 85 246Chattooga 437 36 39 716 59 62 28 2 33 9 0 75 11 0 92 279 23 23 1 201Cherokee 326 29 32 665 59 80 100 8 99 6 0 54 15 1 35 339 30 49 1 112Clarke 720 70 24 207 20 20 96 9 37 2 0 20 0 0 00 513 50 05 1 025Clay 242 54 14 161 36 02 42 9 40 2 0 45 0 0 00 81 18 12 447Clayton 248 42 61 223 38 32 99 17 01 11 1 89 1 0 17 25 4 30 582Clinch 202 54 45 157 42 32 11 2 96 1 0 27 0 0 00 45 12 13 371Cobb 889 54 54 548 33 62 174 10 67 18 1 10 1 0 06 341 20 92 1 630Coffee 534 54 60 382 39 06 54 5 52 2 0 20 6 0 61 152 15 54 978Colquitt 390 46 10 125 14 78 327 38 65 0 0 00 4 0 47 63 a 7 45 846Columbia 144 42 11 12 3 51 185 54 09 1 0 29 0 0 00 41 a 11 99 342Coweta 1 032 81 13 220 17 30 19 1 49 1 0 08 0 0 00 812 63 84 1 272Crawford 285 83 58 24 7 04 32 9 38 0 0 00 0 0 00 253 a 74 19 341Crisp 452 65 04 206 29 64 36 5 18 0 0 00 1 0 14 246 35 40 695Dade 228 71 47 72 22 57 7 2 19 0 0 00 12 3 76 156 48 90 319Dawson 125 35 31 219 61 86 5 1 41 5 1 41 0 0 00 94 26 55 354De Kalb 740 54 37 356 26 16 218 16 02 43 3 16 4 0 29 384 28 21 1 361Decatur 782 53 75 537 36 91 131 9 00 4 0 27 1 0 07 245 16 84 1 455Dodge 544 69 57 177 22 63 44 5 63 1 0 13 16 2 05 367 46 93 782Dooly 507 58 48 271 31 26 87 10 03 2 0 23 0 0 00 236 27 22 867Dougherty 583 78 05 158 21 15 6 0 80 0 0 00 0 0 00 425 56 89 747Douglas 152 28 95 181 34 48 187 35 62 4 0 76 1 0 19 6 b 1 14 525Early 375 53 65 173 24 75 136 19 46 3 0 43 12 1 72 202 28 90 699Echols 140 90 32 15 9 68 0 0 00 0 0 00 0 0 00 125 80 65 155Effingham 302 67 56 89 19 91 55 12 30 1 0 22 0 0 00 213 47 65 447Elbert 714 62 63 103 9 04 305 26 75 18 1 58 0 0 00 409 a 35 88 1 140Emanuel 549 35 19 530 33 97 473 30 32 8 0 51 0 0 00 19 1 22 1 560Fannin 420 38 15 681 61 85 0 0 00 0 0 00 0 0 00 261 23 71 1 101Fayette 338 51 76 162 24 81 151 23 12 0 0 00 2 0 31 176 26 95 653Floyd 1 204 58 82 677 33 07 138 6 74 25 1 22 3 0 15 527 25 74 2 047Forsyth 150 26 04 345 59 90 79 13 72 1 0 17 1 0 17 195 33 85 576Franklin 379 39 07 253 26 08 329 33 92 9 0 93 0 0 00 50 a 5 15 970Fulton 4 790 58 89 2 906 35 73 190 2 34 165 2 03 83 1 02 1 884 23 16 8 134Gilmer 360 40 63 519 58 58 4 0 45 3 0 34 0 0 00 159 17 95 886Glascock 63 16 45 52 13 58 264 68 93 4 1 04 0 0 00 201 a 52 48 383Glynn 467 59 95 298 38 25 12 1 54 2 0 26 0 0 00 169 21 69 779Gordon 476 40 00 615 51 68 97 8 15 1 0 08 1 0 08 139 11 68 1 190Grady 463 48 79 238 25 08 215 22 66 33 3 48 0 0 00 225 23 71 949Greene 412 38 58 428 40 07 201 18 82 25 2 34 2 0 19 16 1 50 1 068Gwinnett 677 41 01 541 32 77 392 23 74 38 2 30 3 0 18 136 8 24 1 651Habersham 364 52 45 230 33 14 77 11 10 17 2 45 6 0 86 134 19 31 694Hall 707 47 74 634 42 81 94 6 35 33 2 23 13 0 88 73 4 93 1 481Hancock 457 74 80 80 13 09 71 11 62 2 0 33 1 0 16 377 61 70 611Haralson 252 28 03 506 56 28 106 11 79 23 2 56 12 1 33 254 28 25 899Harris 556 76 37 94 12 91 77 10 58 1 0 14 0 0 00 462 63 46 728Hart 408 50 43 192 23 73 200 24 72 5 0 62 4 0 49 208 a 25 71 809Heard 203 83 88 5 2 07 34 14 05 0 0 00 0 0 00 169 a 69 83 242Henry 369 57 57 194 30 27 27 4 21 51 7 96 0 0 00 175 27 30 641Houston 855 81 58 27 2 58 0 0 00 166 15 84 0 0 00 689 c 65 74 1 048Irwin 388 65 54 174 29 39 30 5 07 0 0 00 0 0 00 214 36 15 592Jackson 735 49 70 406 27 45 323 21 84 12 0 81 3 0 20 329 22 24 1 479Jasper 557 75 27 155 20 95 28 3 78 0 0 00 0 0 00 402 54 32 740Jeff Davis 172 50 74 156 46 02 11 3 24 0 0 00 0 0 00 16 4 72 339Jefferson 373 50 54 361 48 92 0 0 00 4 0 54 0 0 00 12 1 63 738Jenkins 188 59 31 53 16 72 76 23 97 0 0 00 0 0 00 112 a 35 33 317Johnson 135 20 61 162 24 73 355 54 20 3 0 46 0 0 00 193 b 29 47 655Jones 385 52 38 322 43 81 28 3 81 0 0 00 0 0 00 63 8 57 735Laurens 957 41 90 730 31 96 594 26 01 0 0 00 3 0 13 227 9 94 2 284Lee 337 56 54 252 42 28 7 1 17 0 0 00 0 0 00 85 14 26 596Liberty 219 27 65 412 52 02 160 20 20 1 0 13 0 0 00 193 24 37 792Lincoln 157 38 11 1 0 24 249 60 44 5 1 21 0 0 00 92 a 22 33 412Lowndes 681 73 46 154 16 61 58 6 26 31 3 34 3 0 32 527 56 85 927Lumpkin 261 54 49 218 45 51 0 0 00 0 0 00 0 0 00 43 8 98 479Macon 350 51 47 196 28 82 131 19 26 3 0 44 0 0 00 154 22 65 680Madison 560 68 29 170 20 73 89 10 85 0 0 00 1 0 12 390 47 56 820Marion 217 47 07 155 33 62 89 19 31 0 0 00 0 0 00 62 13 45 461McDuffie 157 30 78 25 4 90 323 63 33 5 0 98 0 0 00 166 a 32 55 510McIntosh 147 47 73 161 52 27 0 0 00 0 0 00 0 0 00 14 4 55 308Meriwether 683 67 42 211 20 83 115 11 35 4 0 39 0 0 00 472 46 59 1 013Miller 161 70 61 23 10 09 44 19 30 0 0 00 0 0 00 117 a 51 32 228Milton 182 51 41 120 33 90 50 14 12 2 0 56 0 0 00 62 17 51 354Mitchell 555 57 99 196 20 48 205 21 42 1 0 10 0 0 00 350 a 36 57 957Monroe 456 54 55 162 19 38 217 25 96 0 0 00 1 0 12 239 a 28 59 836Montgomery 414 46 99 254 28 83 213 24 18 0 0 00 0 0 00 160 18 16 881Morgan 462 64 44 187 26 08 66 9 21 2 0 28 0 0 00 275 38 35 717Murray 312 34 32 539 59 30 20 2 20 0 0 00 38 4 18 227 24 97 909Muscogee 1 599 72 95 459 20 94 10 0 46 0 0 00 124 5 66 1 140 52 01 2 192Newton 643 63 98 303 30 15 48 4 78 11 1 09 0 0 00 340 33 83 1 005Oconee 136 31 85 51 11 94 240 56 21 0 0 00 0 0 00 104 a 24 36 427Oglethorpe 495 73 44 67 9 94 112 16 62 0 0 00 0 0 00 383 a 56 82 674Paulding 256 23 75 630 58 44 188 17 44 3 0 28 1 0 09 374 34 69 1 078Pickens 187 20 22 731 79 03 3 0 32 4 0 43 0 0 00 544 58 81 925Pierce 295 57 06 150 29 01 72 13 93 0 0 00 0 0 00 145 28 05 517Pike 727 67 44 230 21 34 121 11 22 0 0 00 0 0 00 497 46 10 1 078Polk 492 33 24 901 60 88 74 5 00 10 0 68 3 0 20 409 27 64 1 480Pulaski 651 79 20 107 13 02 64 7 79 0 0 00 0 0 00 544 66 18 822Putnam 410 91 93 20 4 48 16 3 59 0 0 00 0 0 00 390 87 44 446Quitman 87 47 03 31 16 76 66 35 68 1 0 54 0 0 00 21 a 11 35 185Rabun 233 55 88 171 41 01 13 3 12 0 0 00 0 0 00 62 14 87 417Randolph 522 53 65 366 37 62 83 8 53 0 0 00 2 0 21 156 16 03 973Richmond 1 727 70 55 267 10 91 345 14 09 0 0 00 109 4 45 1 382 a 56 45 2 448Rockdale 352 57 52 172 28 10 87 14 22 0 0 00 1 0 16 180 29 41 612Schley 219 47 82 173 37 77 64 13 97 2 0 44 0 0 00 46 10 04 458Screven 355 30 90 428 37 25 357 31 07 9 0 78 0 0 00 71 b 6 18 1 149Spalding 725 73 08 199 20 06 29 2 92 22 2 22 17 1 71 526 53 02 992Stephens 306 51 52 261 43 94 27 4 55 0 0 00 0 0 00 45 7 58 594Stewart 415 61 12 241 35 49 23 3 39 0 0 00 0 0 00 174 25 63 679Sumter 876 62 93 476 34 20 36 2 59 4 0 29 0 0 00 400 28 74 1 392Talbot 408 69 39 129 21 94 44 7 48 5 0 85 2 0 34 279 47 45 588Taliaferro 235 40 10 216 36 86 130 22 18 0 0 00 5 0 85 19 3 24 586Tattnall 534 42 82 263 21 09 432 34 64 18 1 44 0 0 00 102 a 8 18 1 247Taylor 253 44 00 159 27 65 163 28 35 0 0 00 0 0 00 90 a 15 65 575Telfair 613 70 54 29 3 34 0 0 00 227 26 12 0 0 00 386 c 44 42 869Terrell 528 73 03 142 19 64 53 7 33 0 0 00 0 0 00 386 53 39 723Thomas 765 42 43 723 40 10 308 17 08 7 0 39 0 0 00 42 2 33 1 803Tift 450 68 70 99 15 11 104 15 88 0 0 00 2 0 31 346 a 52 82 655Toombs 282 48 37 200 34 31 98 16 81 3 0 51 0 0 00 82 14 07 583Towns 196 40 08 291 59 51 2 0 41 0 0 00 0 0 00 95 19 43 489Troup 714 68 13 45 4 29 287 27 39 2 0 19 0 0 00 427 a 40 74 1 048Turner 276 50 46 105 19 20 137 25 05 22 4 02 7 1 28 139 a 25 41 547Twiggs 301 76 20 73 18 48 21 5 32 0 0 00 0 0 00 228 57 72 395Union 344 44 85 418 54 50 5 0 65 0 0 00 0 0 00 74 9 65 767Upson 369 48 36 145 19 00 249 32 63 0 0 00 0 0 00 120 a 15 73 763Walker 754 43 61 925 53 50 32 1 85 6 0 35 12 0 69 171 9 89 1 729Walton 727 53 93 389 28 86 225 16 69 6 0 45 1 0 07 338 25 07 1 348Ware 771 76 49 190 18 85 12 1 19 16 1 59 19 1 88 581 57 64 1 008Warren 158 26 92 166 28 28 257 43 78 4 0 68 2 0 34 91 b 15 50 587Washington 630 45 78 267 19 40 479 34 81 0 0 00 0 0 00 151 a 10 97 1 376Wayne 394 65 34 144 23 88 34 5 64 30 4 98 1 0 17 250 41 46 603Webster 114 44 36 117 45 53 26 10 12 0 0 00 0 0 00 3 1 17 257White 121 35 59 183 53 82 36 10 59 0 0 00 0 0 00 62 18 24 340Whitfield 586 40 05 775 52 97 36 2 46 6 0 41 60 4 10 189 12 92 1 463Wilcox 380 72 66 120 22 94 22 4 21 1 0 19 0 0 00 260 49 71 523Wilkes 557 65 53 65 7 65 216 25 41 12 1 41 0 0 00 341 a 40 12 850Wilkinson 280 71 61 55 14 07 55 14 07 1 0 26 0 0 00 225 57 54 391Worth 457 48 36 237 25 08 251 26 56 0 0 00 0 0 00 206 a 21 80 945Totals 72 350 54 60 41 355 31 21 16 687 12 59 1 452 1 10 660 0 50 30 995 23 39 132 504See also editUnited States presidential elections in GeorgiaNotes edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab In this county where Taft ran third behind Bryan and Watson margin given is Bryan vote minus Watson vote and percentage margin Bryan percentage minus Watson percentage a b c d In this county where Bryan ran third behind both Taft and Watson margin given is Taft vote minus Watson vote and percentage margin Taft percentage minsu Watson percentage a b In this county where Chafin ran second ahead of both Taft and Watson margin given is Bryan vote minus Chafin vote and percentage margin Bryan percentage minus Chafin percentage References edit Mickey Robert W Paths Out of Dixie The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America s Deep South 1944 1972 p 76 ISBN 1400838789 Phillips Kevin P The Emerging Republican Majority pp 208 210 ISBN 9780691163246 Springer Melanie Jean How the States Shaped the Nation American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout 1920 2000 p 155 ISBN 022611435X a b Mickey Robert W The Beginning of the End for Authoritarian Rule in America Smith v Allwright and the Abolition of the White Primary in the Deep South 1944 1948 Studies in American Political Development Vol 22 Fall 2008 pp 143 182 Perman Michael Struggle for Mastery Disfranchisement in the South 1888 1908 p 274 ISBN 0807860255 Perman Struggle for Mastery p 283 Perman Struggle for Mastery p 297 a b Tindall George B Southern Strategy A Historical Perspective North Carolina Historical Review vol 48 no 2 April 1971 pp 126 141 de Santis Vincent P Republican Efforts to Crack the Democratic South The Review of Politics vol 14 no 2 April 1952 pp 244 264 Just Nonsense Says Howell So Georgia Editor Styles Talk of Taft Carrying Georgia The Atlanta Constitution September 8 1908 p 2 Situation Complicated In Georgia and Taft Men Talk Seriously of Carrying the State Cincinnati Enquirer October 18 1908 p 27 Menendez Albert J The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States 1868 2004 p 39 ISBN 0786422173 Dave Leip s U S Election Atlas 1908 Presidential General Election Results Georgia a b c d e Geoelections Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1908 xlsx file for 30 including full minor party figures Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1908 United States presidential election in Georgia amp oldid 1192159487, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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