Election returns courtesy of Richard Winger. Biographical data (links) from cited references and from other sources which appear to the Editor to be trustworthy.

Office
Candidate Name
Vote Total

% Vote


Circa 1900
Jabez Burritt Smith (1852-1914) was Chairman of the Wisconsin Prohibition Party in the earliest 20th Century. He ran for Governor of Wisconsin about 1900. A biography of Smith was published in issue #2 of Prohibition History Notes.

1920

Senator

Clyde D. Meads 5,107 0.75

Governor

Henry H. Tubbs 6,047 0.87

Secretary of State

Warren J. Robinson 10,269 1.60

Treasurer

Mathew Mott 8,222 1.29

Attorney General

? 7,983 1.40

1922

Senator

Adolph R. Buckman 11,254 2.39

Governor

M.L. Welles 21,438 4.45

Lt. Governor

Ella Tenney Sanford 20,121 4.39

Secretary of State

Maria I.A. Nelson 19,000 4.17

Treasurer

Clyde D. Mead 18,598 4.12

Attorney General

Charles L. Allen 17,864 4.32

1924

Governor

Adolph R. Buckham 11,516 1.45

Lt. Governor

Maria I.A. Nelson 11,170 1.50

Secretary of State

Oliver Needham 7,962 1.06

Treasurer

Ada B. Crandall 12,999 1.79

Attorney General

Mathew Mott 9,134 1.28

Congressional District 7

Gay Harrison 1,528 2.60

1926

Senator

Ella Tenney Sanford 9,885 1.72

Governor

David W. Emerson 7,333 1.33

Lt. Governor

Henry H. Tubbs 9,448 1.89

Secretary of State

Clara G. Miller 14,525 2.93

Treasurer

Warren J. Robinson 12,495 2.45

Attorney General

Burton S. Hawley 9,885 2.62 *

Congressional District 7

Henry N. Stephenson 1,613 4.28

Congressional District 10

Otto D. Kahl 1,108 2.64 *

Congressional District 11

Harriet Smith Olson 1,368 3.08

1928

Senator

David W. Emerson 21,359 2.88 *

Governor

Adolph R. Bucknam 6,477 0.65

Lt. Governor

Oliver Needham 6,621 0.73

Secretary of State

W.C. Pickering 6,517 0.72

Treasurer

Henry H. Tubbs 7,533 0.84

Attorney General

Burton S. Hawley 7,244 0.83

Congressional District   3

Thomas Dobson 1,005 1.19

Congressional District   7

Arthur H. Shanley 400 0.58

Congressional District   8

E. W. Shatto 488 0.75

Congressional District   9

Maria I.A. Nelson 967 1.12

Congressional District 11

Edwin Kerswill 1,492 2.13

1930

Governor

Alfred B. Taynton 14,818 2.44

Lt. Governor

Otto D. Kahl 13,404 2.38

Secretary of State

J. Keith Peckham 12,438 2.21

Treasurer

W.C. Pickering 12,190 2.18

Attorney General

Burton S. Hawley 12,636 2.29

Congressional District   4

Joseph A. Hansen 531 0.93

Congressional District   7

Oliver Needham 1,178 3.07

Congressional District 10

Wesley Vasey 940 2.49 *

1932

Senator

Harvey A. Knapp 4,364 0.39

Governor

William C. Dean 3,148 0.26

Lt. Governor

J. Keith Peckham 3,296 0.31

Secretary of State

W.C. Pickering 4,035 0.38

Treasurer

A.C. Papst 3,680 0.35

Attorney General

Burton S. Hawley 4,225 0.41

Congressional District 1
    (Illinois border)

Henry H. Tubbs 418 0.40

Congressional District 2
    (Madison)

Georgenia J. Koppke 349 0.31

State Senate 26 (Madison)

W.J. Robinson 650 1.46

State House, Dane Co. 1

Alfred B. Taynton 64 0.26

1934

Senator

Theodore Lee
826
0.09

Governor

Theodore W. North
857
0.09

Lt. Governor

Edwin Kerswill
1,104
0.12

Secretary of State

Louise Packel
1,022
0.11

Treasurer

Otto D. Kahl
1,121
0.13

Attorney General

Harvey A. Knapp
1,130
0.13

1936

Governor

August F. Fehlandt
1,008
0.08

Lt. Governor

Vernon T. Groves
2,496
0.22

Secretary of State

Mayme Swanson
1,656
0.14

Treasurer

Roy Higgins
2,202
0.19

Attorney General

Charles H. Velte
write-in

1942

Governor

Charles L. Hill
write-in, no tally
 

Lt. Governor

W.C. Pickering
write-in, no tally
 

Secretary

 Susie Neff 
write-in, no tally
 

Treasurer 

C. Howard Purdy 
write-in, no tally
 

Attorney General

Edward Kahl
write-in, no tally