United States presidential election in Georgia, 1908

United States presidential election in Georgia, 1908

November 3, 1908 (1908-11-03)

Nominee William J. Bryan William H. 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%

President before election Theodore Roosevelt Republican Elected President William Howard Taft Republican

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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 thirteen representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Background

With the exception of a handful of historically Unionist North Georgia counties – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns – Georgia since the 1880s had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and most poor whites had made the Republican Party virtually nonexistent outside of local governments in those few hill counties, and the national Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction. The only competitive elections were Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.^[1]

Vote

The Bryan/Kern ticket carried the state of Georgia on election day.

Results

References

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