The 1864 Maryland gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1864. Incumbent Union Party
Governor Augustus Bradford
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did not run for re-election. Union Party candidate
Thomas Swann
Thomas Swann (February 3, 1809 – July 24, 1883) was an American lawyer and Politics of the United States, politician who also was President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as it completed track to Wheeling, West Virginia, Wheeling and gaine ...
defeated
Democratic candidate
Ezekiel F. Chambers
Ezekiel Forman Chambers (February 28, 1788January 30, 1867) was an American politician.
Born in Chestertown, Maryland, Chambers was graduated from Washington College at Chestertown in 1805. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1808, and co ...
.
The Union Party was a faction of the
Maryland Democratic Party which supported the
Lincoln administration. The party supported the re-election of
Abraham Lincoln under the banner of the
National Union Party.
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.
Results
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Gubernatorial
1864
Events
January–March
* January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " ...
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