The 1938 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1938.
Republican Party of Minnesota
The Republican Party of Minnesota is the state affiliate of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party in Minnesota and the oldest active political party in the state. Founded in 1855, the party is headquartered in Edina, Minnesota, E ...
candidate
Harold Stassen
Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician, military officer, and attorney who was the List of governors of Minnesota, 25th governor of Minnesota from 193 ...
defeated
Farmer–Labor Party
The first modern Farmer–Labor Party in the United States emerged in Minnesota in 1918. The American entry into World War I caused agricultural prices and workers' wages to fall, while retail prices rose sharply during the war years. Consequent ...
incumbent
Elmer Benson
Elmer Austin Benson (September 22, 1895 March 13, 1985) was an American lawyer and politician from Minnesota. In 1935, Benson was appointed to the U.S. Senate following the death of Thomas Schall. He served as the 24th governor of Minnesota, de ...
.
Martin A. Nelson and
George E. Leach unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination, while
Hjalmar Petersen
Hjalmar Petersen (January 2, 1890March 29, 1968) was an American journalist and politician who served as the List of Governors of Minnesota, 23rd Governor of Minnesota from 1936 to 1937, succeeding the late Floyd Olson.
Background
Hjalmar Peter ...
unsuccessfully ran for the Farmer-Labor nomination.
Results
Further reading
* Benson, Elmer A. "Politics in My Lifetime." ''Minnesota History'' 47 (1980): 154–60
online* Haynes, John Earl. ''Dubious alliance: the making of Minnesota's DFL Party'' (U of Minnesota Press, 1984)
* Kirby, Ales, David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann. ''Harold E. Stassen: The Life and Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican'' (2012)
* Lovin, Hugh T. "The Fall of Farmer–Labor Parties, 1936-1938." ''Pacific Northwest Quarterly'' (1971): 16–26
in JSTOR* Sofchalk, Donald G. "Union and Ethnic Group Influence in the 1938 Election on the Minnesota Iron Ranges." ''Journal of the West'' (2003) 42#3 pp: 66–74.
See also
*
List of Minnesota gubernatorial elections
{{ElectionsMN
Results and election information for past Minnesota governor races. The first election was in 1857 ahead of Minnesota becoming a state. Elections were set for every two years beginning in 1859. In 1886 elections were moved from odd ...
External links
* http://www.sos.state.mn.us/home/index.asp?page=653
* http://www.sos.state.mn.us/home/index.asp?page=657
Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...
Gubernatorial
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative. Depending on the type of political region or polity, a ''governor'' ma ...
1938
Events
January
* January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS).
* January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
November 1938 in the United States
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