1866 Connecticut gubernatorial election

1866 Connecticut gubernatorial election

← 1865 April 2, 1866 1867 →
 
Nominee Joseph Roswell Hawley James E. English
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 43,974 43,433
Percentage 50.30% 49.69%

County results
Hawley:      50–60%      60–70%
English:      50–60%

Governor before election

William Alfred Buckingham
National Union

Elected Governor

Joseph Roswell Hawley
Republican

The 1866 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1866. Civil War general and Republican nominee Joseph Roswell Hawley defeated Democratic nominee James E. English with 50.30% of the vote.

As this was the first election held after the American Civil War, some aspects of the National Union Party were still present. The Republican convention held in Hartford on February 14 still sometimes referred to itself as the "Union" convention, and it passed a resolution expressing confidence in President Andrew Johnson.[1] The party would split with Johnson later that same year, and all references to the National Union label were dropped by the end of the 1860s.

  1. ^ "The Connecticut Republican State Convention", The Portland Daily Press (February 15, 1866),