The 1801 Tennessee gubernatorial election took place from August 6–7, 1801. The incumbent governor,
John Sevier
John Sevier (September 23, 1745 September 24, 1815) was an American soldier, frontiersman, and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he played a leading role in Tennes ...
, had reached his three consecutive term limits and had to wait until 1803 to run again.
Democratic-Republican
The Democratic-Republican Party (also referred to by historians as the Republican Party or the Jeffersonian Republican Party), was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s. It championed l ...
judge
Archibald Roane won a term almost unanimously against other Democratic-Republican nominee John Boyd.
Results
See also
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1801 Tennessee's at-large congressional district special election
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1801 United States gubernatorial elections
References
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Tennessee
Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...
August 1801