The 1938 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1938.
Republican Party of Minnesota candidate
Harold Stassen defeated
Farmer–Labor Party incumbent
Elmer Benson
Elmer Austin Benson (September 22, 1895 March 13, 1985) was an American lawyer and politician from Minnesota. In 1935, Benson was appointed to the U.S. Senate following the death of Thomas Schall. He served as the 24th governor of Minnesota, de ...
.
Martin A. Nelson
Martin A. Nelson (February 21, 1889 – May 22, 1979) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist from Minnesota. He served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Early life and education
Nelson was born in Hesper Township, ...
and
George E. Leach
George Emerson Leach (July 14, 1876 – July 17, 1955) was an American politician who served as a major general in the United States Army and two-time Republican Mayor of Minneapolis.
Early life
George Emerson Leach was born in Cedar Rapids ...
unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination, while
Hjalmar Petersen unsuccessfully ran for the Farmer-Labor nomination.
Results
Further reading
* Benson, Elmer A. "Politics in My Lifetime." ''Minnesota History'' 47 (1980): 154–60
online* Haynes, John Earl. ''Dubious alliance: the making of Minnesota's DFL Party'' (U of Minnesota Press, 1984)
* Kirby, Ales, David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann. ''Harold E. Stassen: The Life and Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican'' (2012)
* Lovin, Hugh T. "The Fall of Farmer–Labor Parties, 1936-1938." ''Pacific Northwest Quarterly'' (1971): 16–26
in JSTOR* Sofchalk, Donald G. "Union and Ethnic Group Influence in the 1938 Election on the Minnesota Iron Ranges." ''Journal of the West'' (2003) 42#3 pp: 66–74.
See also
*
List of Minnesota gubernatorial elections
External links
* http://www.sos.state.mn.us/home/index.asp?page=653
* http://www.sos.state.mn.us/home/index.asp?page=657
Minnesota
Gubernatorial
1938
Events
January
* January 1
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