Governors of Wisconsin, 1848-2020 (May be
incomplete!)
Nelson
Dewey 1848-52
Leonard
J. Farwell 1852-54
William
A. Barstow 1854-56
Arthur
MacArthur 1856
Coles
Bashford 1856-58
Alexander
W. Randall 1858-62
Louis
P. Harvey 1862
Edward
P. Salomon 1862-64
James
T. Lewis 1864-66
Lucius
Fairchild 1866-72
Cadwallader
C. Washburn 1872-74
William
R. Taylor 1874-76
Harrison
Ludington 1876-78
William
E. Smith 1878-82
Jeremiah
M. Rusk 1882-89
William
D. Hoard 1889-91
George
W. Peck 1891-95
William
H. Upham 1895-97
Edward
Scofield 1897-1901
Robert
M. LaFollette 1901-06
James
O. Davidson 1906-11
Francis
E. McGovern 1911-15
Emanuel
L. Philipp 1915-21
John
J. Blaine 1921-27
Fred
R. Zimmerman 1927-29
Walter
J. Kohler 1929-31
Philip
F. LaFollette 1931-33
Albert
G. Schmedeman 1933-35
Philip
F. LaFollette 1935-39
Julius
P. Heil 1939-43
Walter
S. Goodland 1943-47
Oscar
Rennebohm 1947-51
Walter
J. Kohler, Jr. 1951-57
Vernon
W. Thomson 1957-59
Gaylord
A. Nelson 1959-63
John
W. Reynolds, Jr. 1963-65
Warren
P. Knowles 1965-71
Patrick
J. Lucey 1971-77
Martin
J. Schreiber 1977-79
Lee
S. Dreyfus 1979-83
Anthony
S. Earl 1983-87
Tommy
G. Thompson 1987-2001
Scott
McCallum 2001-03
James
E. Doyle 2003-11
Scott
Walker 2011-19
Tony
Evers 2019-
Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)
1848 May 8:
Nelson
Dewey (Dem), elected;
John
H. Tweedy (Whig), defeated;
Charles
Durkee (Ind), defeated.
1849 Nov 6:
Nelson
Dewey (Dem), elected;
Alexander
L. Collins (Whig), defeated;
Warren
Chase (Ind), defeated.
1851 Nov 4:
Leonard
J. Farwell (Whig), elected;
Don
A. J. Upham (Dem), defeated.
1853:
William
A. Barstow (Dem), elected;
Edward
D. Holton (Free Soil), defeated;
Henry
S. Baird (Whig), defeated.
1855:
William
A. Barstow (Dem), elected, but lost subsequent challenge;
Coles
Bashford (Rep), defeated, but won subsequent challenge.
1857:
Alexander
W. Randall (Rep), elected;
James
B. Cross (Dem), defeated.
1859:
Alexander
W. Randall (Rep), elected;
Harrison
C. Hobart (Dem), defeated.
1861:
Louis
P. Harvey (Rep), elected;
Benjamin
Ferguson (Dem), defeated.
1862 Apr 19:
Louis
P. Harvey, died in office.
1863:
James
T. Lewis (Rep), elected;
Henry
L. Palmer (Dem), defeated.
1865:
Lucius
Fairchild (Rep), elected;
Harrison
C. Hobart (Dem), defeated.
1867:
Lucius
Fairchild (Rep), elected;
John
J. Tallmadge (Dem), defeated.
1869:
Lucius
Fairchild (Rep), elected;
Charles
D. Robinson (Dem), defeated.
1871:
Cadwallader
C. Washburn (Rep), elected;
James
R. Doolittle (Dem), defeated.
1873:
William
R. Taylor (Dem), elected;
Cadwallader
C. Washburn (Rep), defeated.
1875:
Harrison
Ludington (Rep), elected;
William
R. Taylor (Dem), defeated.
1877:
William
E. Smith (Rep), elected;
James
A. Mallory (Dem), defeated;
Edward
Phelps Allis (Greenback), defeated;
Collin
M. Campbell (Socialist), defeated.
1879:
William
E. Smith (Rep), elected;
James
G. Jenkins (Dem), defeated;
Reuben
May (Greenback), defeated.
1881:
Jeremiah
M. Rusk (Rep), elected;
Nicholas
D. Fratt (Dem), defeated;
Theodore
D. Kanouse (Prohibition), defeated;
Edward
Phelps Allis (Greenback), defeated.
1884:
Jeremiah
M. Rusk (Rep), elected;
Nicholas
D. Fratt (Dem), defeated;
Samuel
Dexter Hastings (Prohibition), defeated;
William
L. Utley (Greenback), defeated.
1886:
Jeremiah
M. Rusk (Rep), elected;
Gilbert
M. Woodward (Dem), defeated;
John
Cochrane (People's), defeated;
John
Myers Olin (Prohibition), defeated.
1888:
William
D. Hoard (Rep), elected;
James
Morgan (Dem), defeated;
E.
G. Durant (Prohibition), defeated;
D.
Frank Powell (Labor), defeated.
1890:
George
W. Peck (Dem), elected;
William
D. Hoard (Rep), defeated;
Charles
Alexander (Prohibition), defeated;
Reuben
May (Union Labor), defeated.
1892:
George
W. Peck (Dem), elected;
John
C. Spooner (Rep), defeated;
Thomas
C. Richmond (Prohibition), defeated;
C.
M. Butt (People's), defeated.
1894:
William
H. Upham (Rep), elected;
George
W. Peck (Dem), defeated;
D.
Frank Powell (People's), defeated;
John
F. Cleghorn (Prohibition), defeated.
1896:
Edward
Scofield (Rep), elected;
Willis
C. Silverthorn (Dem), defeated;
Joshua
H. Berkey (Prohibition), defeated;
Christ
Tuttrop (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Robert
Henderson (National), defeated.
1898:
Edward
Scofield (Rep), elected;
Hiram
Wilson Sawyer (Dem), defeated;
Albinus
A. Worsley (People's), defeated;
Eugene
W. Chafin (Prohibition), defeated;
Howard
Tuttle (Social Democratic), defeated;
Henry
Riese (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1900:
Robert
M. LaFollette (Rep), elected;
Louis
G. Bomrich (Dem), defeated;
J.
Burritt Smith (Prohibition), defeated;
Howard
Tuttle (Social Democratic), defeated;
Frank
R. Wilke (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1902:
Robert
M. LaFollette (Rep), elected;
David
S. Rose (Dem), defeated;
Emil
Seidel (Social Democratic), defeated;
Edwin
W. Drake (Prohibition), defeated;
Henry
E. D. Puck (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1904:
Robert
M. LaFollette (Rep), elected;
George
W. Peck (Dem), defeated;
William
A. Arnold (Social Democratic), defeated;
Edward
Scofield (National Republican), defeated;
William
H. Clark (Prohibition), defeated;
Charles
M. Minkley (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1906:
James
O. Davidson (Rep), elected;
John
A. Aylward (Dem), defeated;
Winfield
R. Gaylord (Social Democratic), defeated;
Ephraim
L. Eaton (Prohibition), defeated;
Ole
T. Rosaas (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1908:
James
O. Davidson (Rep), elected;
John
A. Aylward (Dem), defeated;
Harvey
D. Brown (Social Democratic), defeated;
Winfred
D. Cox (Prohibition), defeated;
Herman
Bottema (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1910 Nov 8:
Francis
E. McGovern (Rep), elected;
Adolph
H. Schmitz (Dem), defeated;
William
A. Jacobs (Social Democratic), defeated;
Byron
E. Van Keuren (Prohibition), defeated;
Fred
G. Kremer (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1912 Nov 5:
Francis
E. McGovern (Rep), elected;
John
C. Karel (Dem), defeated;
Carl
D. Thompson (Social Democratic), defeated;
Charles
L. Hill (Prohibition), defeated;
William
H. Curtis (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1914 Nov 3:
Emanuel
L. Philipp (Rep), elected;
John
C. Karel (Dem), defeated;
John
J. Blaine (Ind), defeated;
Oscar
Ameringer (Social Democratic), defeated;
David
W. Emerson (Prohibition), defeated;
John
Vierthaler (Ind), defeated.
1916 Sep 5:
Burt
Williams (Dem), nominated unopposed.
1916 Sep 5:
Emanuel
L. Philipp (Rep), nominated;
William
H. Hatton (Rep), defeated in primary;
Francis
E. McGovern (Rep), defeated in primary;
Don
C. Hall (Rep), defeated in primary.
1916 Sep 5:
George
McKerrow (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
1916 Sep 5:
Rae
Weaver (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
1916 Nov 7:
Emanuel
L. Philipp (Rep), elected;
Burt
Williams (Dem), defeated;
Rae
Weaver (Socialist), defeated;
George
McKerrow (Prohibition), defeated.
1918 Nov 5:
Emanuel
L. Philipp (Rep), elected;
Henry
A. Moehlenpah (Dem), defeated;
Emil
Seidel (Social Democratic), defeated;
William
C. Dean (Prohibition), defeated.
1920 Nov 2:
John
J. Blaine (Rep), elected;
Robert
McCoy (Dem), defeated;
William
Coleman (Socialist), defeated;
Henry
H. Tubbs (Prohibition), defeated.
1922 Nov 7:
John
J. Blaine (Rep), elected;
Arthur
A. Bentley (Independent Democratic), defeated;
Louis
A. Arnold (Socialist), defeated;
M.
L. Welles (Prohibition), defeated;
Arthur
A. Dietrich (Independent Socialist Labor), defeated.
1924 Nov 4:
John
J. Blaine (Rep), elected;
Martin
L. Lueck (Dem), defeated;
William
F. Quick (Socialist), defeated;
Adolph
R. Bucknam (Prohibition), defeated;
Severi
Alanne (Ind Workers), defeated;
Farrand
K. Shuttleworth (Independent Progressive Republican), defeated;
Jose
Snover (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1926 Nov 2:
Fred
R. Zimmerman (Rep), elected;
Charles
B. Perry (Ind), defeated;
Virgil
H. Cady (Dem), defeated;
Herman
O. Kent (Socialist), defeated;
David
W. Emerson (Prohibition), defeated;
Alex
Gorden (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1928 Nov 6:
Walter
J. Kohler (Rep), elected;
Albert
G. Schmedeman (Dem), defeated;
Otto
R. Hauser (Socialist), defeated;
Adolph
R. Bucknam (Prohibition), defeated;
Joseph
Ehrhardt (Independent Labor), defeated;
Alvar
J. Hayes (Ind Workers), defeated.
1930 Nov 4:
Philip
F. LaFollette (Rep), elected;
Charles
E. Hammersley (Dem), defeated;
Frank
B. Metcalfe (Socialist), defeated;
Alfred
B. Taynton (Prohibition), defeated;
Fred
B. Blair (Communist), defeated.
1932:
Walter
J. Kohler, defeated.
1934:
Greene
(Rep), defeated;
Philip
F. LaFollette (Progressive), elected;
Albert
G. Schmedeman, defeated;
George
A. Nelson (Socialist), defeated.
1936:
Alexander
Wiley, defeated;
Arthur
W. Lueck (Dem), defeated.
1938:
Bolens
(Dem), defeated;
Philip
F. LaFollette, defeated.
1940:
Raymond
J. Cannon, defeated for nomination;
McGovern,
defeated;
Louis
Fisher (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Orland
S. Loomis (Progressive), defeated.
1942:
Raymond
J. Cannon, defeated for nomination;
Sullivan
(Dem), defeated;
Georgia
Cozzini (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Julius
P. Heil, defeated;
Orland
S. Loomis (Progressive), elected, but died before taking office.
1944:
Georgia
Cozzini (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Daniel
W. Hoan (Dem), defeated.
1946:
Daniel
W. Hoan (Dem), defeated.
1947 Mar 12:
Walter
S. Goodland, died in office.
1948:
Carl
W. Thompson (Dem), defeated;
Georgia
Cozzini (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Oscar
Rennebohm, elected.
1950 Sep 19:
Carl
W. Thompson (Dem), nominated;
Charles
P. Greene (Dem), defeated in primary.
1950 Sep 19:
Walter
J. Kohler, Jr. (Rep), nominated;
Leonard
Schmitt (Rep), defeated in primary.
1950 Nov 7:
Walter
J. Kohler, Jr. (Rep), elected;
Carl
W. Thompson (Dem), defeated.
1952:
William
Proxmire, defeated.
1954:
William
Proxmire, defeated;
James
E. Doyle (Dem), defeated.
1956 Nov 6:
Vernon
W. Thomson (Rep), elected;
William
Proxmire (Dem), defeated.
1958:
Vernon
W. Thomson, defeated.
1960:
Philip
G. Kuehn (Rep), defeated.
1962:
Philip
G. Kuehn (Rep), defeated.
1964:
John
W. Reynolds, Jr., defeated.
1966:
Patrick
J. Lucey (Dem), defeated.
1968 Nov 5:
Warren
P. Knowles (Rep), elected;
Bronson
C. LaFollette (Dem), defeated;
Adolf
Wiggert (Ind), defeated;
Robert
Wilkinson (Ind), defeated.
1970:
Georgia
Cozzini (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Jack
B. Olson, defeated.
1974:
William
D. Dyke (Rep), defeated;
Georgia
Cozzini (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1978:
Robert
W. Kasten, Jr. (Rep), defeated in primary.
1990:
Thomas
A. Loftus (Dem), defeated.
2002:
Thomas
M. Barrett (Dem), defeated.
2010:
Scott
Walker (Rep), elected.
2012:
Scott
Walker (Rep), elected.
2014:
Scott
Walker (Rep), elected.
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