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The 1804 New York gubernatorial election was held in April 1804 to elect the Governor of New York. Incumbent Governor George Clinton did not run for re-election, having been nominated for Vice President of the United States in February. In a campaign that blurred partisan divisions, Morgan Lewis defeated Aaron Burr by a landslide margin.
Burr, the incumbent Vice President, had been alienated from the Democratic-Republican Party after he challenged Thomas Jefferson in the contested presidential election of 1800. Though the ascendant Tammany Hall organization and some members of the Federalist Party supported Burr, he was opposed by the bulk of the Republicans, led by the Clinton and Livingston families. Alexander Hamilton, the most eminent Federalist, also refused to support his personal rival and endorsed Lewis. Hamilton's longstanding and severe criticisms of Burr, which were published during the campaign, led Burr to challenge him to the duel which took Hamilton's life in June 1804.