1948 Tennessee gubernatorial election

1948 Tennessee gubernatorial election

← 1946 November 2, 1948 1950 →
 
Nominee Gordon Browning Roy Acuff
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 363,903 179,957
Percentage 66.91% 33.09%

County results
Browning:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Acuff:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

Governor before election

Jim Nance McCord
Democratic

Elected Governor

Gordon Browning
Democratic

The 1948 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1948. Former Democratic governor Gordon Browning once again sought the party's nomination for governor. In the hardly fought primary, Browning comfortably defeated Governor Jim Nance McCord.[1] In the general election, Browning easily defeated Republican nominee Roy Acuff, a famous country musician, with 66.9% of the vote.

Before this election, Gordon Browning was last elected governor of Tennessee in 1936. He lost his re-election primary in 1938, and he failed the first time to defeat Governor McCord in 1946.

  1. ^ Phillip Langsdon, Tennessee: A Political History (Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press, 2000), pp. 325-329, 340-350.