Virginia Gubernatorial Election, 1881
The 1881 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1881. The Readjuster Party, Readjuster Party candidate William Evelyn Cameron won in a historic Upset (competition), upset election. The Readjusters were a unique state mixture of Republicans, populist (or "New Departure (Democrats), New Departure") Democrats, freedmen, poor voters, and those in favor of "re-adjusting" the state debt owed to Northern banks for the various internal improvements financed before the American Civil War, war. Some of those internal improvements went to West Virginia, as they were physically located in there, as it counter-seceded from Virginia, who had sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War. The Democratic candidate, John Warwick Daniel, was a Virginia House of Delegates, Virginia State Delegate and Virginia Senate, Virginia State Senator who was elected Representative in 1882 and then United States Senate, United States Senator in 1886, succeeding the leader of the Readjuster ...
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