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1843 Mississippi gubernatorial election

1843 Mississippi gubernatorial election
← 1841 November 6, 1843 1845 →
 
Nominee Albert G. Brown George R. Clayton Thomas Hickman Williams
Party Democratic Whig Democratic
Popular vote 21,035 17,322 1,343
Percentage 51.7% 43.6% 3.4%
Governor before election

Tilghman Tucker
Democratic

Elected Governor

Albert G. Brown
Democratic

The 1843 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1843, to elect the governor of Mississippi. Albert G. Brown, an anti-Bond Democrat won against Whig George R. Clayton and "Bond-Paying Democrat" and former U.S. Senator Thomas Hickman Williams.[1][2]

  1. ^ Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 168–169.
  2. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1925). History of Mississippi, the Heart of the South. Vol. 1. S. J. Clarke publishing Company.

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