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The 1864 Maryland gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1864. Incumbent Union Party Governor Augustus Bradford did not run for re-election. Union Party candidate Thomas Swann defeated Democratic candidate Ezekiel F. Chambers.
The Union Party was a faction of the Maryland Democratic Party which supported the Lincoln administration.[1] The party supported the re-election of Abraham Lincoln under the banner of the National Union Party.[2]
Swann took his oath of office on January 11, 1865, but by a provision of the 1864 State Constitution, he did not actually become Governor until January 10, 1866.[3]
- ^ Wilner, Alan M. (1984). The Maryland Board of Public Works: A History. Maryland Department of General Services. p. 46. ISBN 9780942370126.
- ^ Chandler, Julian Alvin Carroll, ed. (1909). The South in the Building of the Nation: The History of the Southern States. Vol. 1. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. p. 213.
- ^ Frank F. White Jr. (1970), "Biography of Augustus Williamson Bradford", The Governors of Maryland 1777-1970, Annapolis: The Hall of Records Commission, pp. 159–163, OCLC 144620, archived from the original on October 10, 2012, retrieved September 6, 2021