The 1924 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1924.
Incumbent
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Republican Lieutenant Governor
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Fred E. Sterling
Fred E. Sterling (June 29, 1869 – February 10, 1934) was an American newspaper editor and politician.
Born in Dixon, Illinois, Sterling moved with his family to a farm in Huron, South Dakota when he was 11. Sterling was a newspaper editor ...
won a
landslide
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reelection.
Primary elections
Primary election
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s were held on April 8, 1924.
Democratic primary
Candidates
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Michael H. Cleary
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, former
State Senator
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Description
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and Democratic nominee for
Illinois's at-large congressional district in
1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
*Mark M. Duffy
*Ferdinand A. Garesche,
State Representative
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Results
Republican primary
Candidates
*Charles F. Kramp
*Lewis Rinaker, former
State Representative
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*
Fred E. Sterling
Fred E. Sterling (June 29, 1869 – February 10, 1934) was an American newspaper editor and politician.
Born in Dixon, Illinois, Sterling moved with his family to a farm in Huron, South Dakota when he was 11. Sterling was a newspaper editor ...
, incumbent
Lieutenant Governor
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Results
Socialist primary
Candidates
*Tilden Bozarth, delegate to the 1924 Socialist Party National Convention
Results
General election
Candidates
Major candidates
*Ferdinand A. Garesche, Democratic
*
Fred E. Sterling
Fred E. Sterling (June 29, 1869 – February 10, 1934) was an American newspaper editor and politician.
Born in Dixon, Illinois, Sterling moved with his family to a farm in Huron, South Dakota when he was 11. Sterling was a newspaper editor ...
, Republican
Minor candidates
*Tilden Bozarth, Socialist
*Gustave A. Jennings, Socialist Labor, nominee for
Governor
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in
1908
Events
January
* January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica.
* January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...
and for
Lieutenant Governor
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in
1916
Events
Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix.
January
* January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled.
* ...
*John Watt, Workers
*John B. McElroy, Independent Republican
*John B. Reilly, Commonwealth Land
Results
See also
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1924 Illinois gubernatorial election
The 1924 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1924. Incumbent first-term Republican Party (United States), Republican Governor of Illinois, Governor Len Small defeated Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominee Norman ...
References
Bibliography
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1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
Lieutenant gubernatorial
Illinois
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November 1924 events