California Gubernatorial Candidates

1894-1998

1894

James H. Budd   Democrat
Morris M. Estee Republican
J. V. Webster People's
Henry French Prohibition

1898

Henry T. Gage  
Republican
Union Labor
James G. McGuire
Democrat
People's
Socialist Labor
Job Harriman  Socialist Labor
J. E. McComas Prohibition

1902

George C. Pardee   Republican
Franklin K. Lane  Democrat
Gideon S. Brower Socialist
Theodore D. Kanouse Prohibition

1906

James N. Gillett  Republican
Theodore A. Bell
Democrat
Union Labor
William H. Langdon Independence League  
Austin Lewis Socialist
James H. Blanchard Prohibition

1910

Hiram W. Johnson   Republican
Theodore A. Bell Democrat
J. Stitt Wilson Socialist
Simeon P. Meads Prohibition

1914

Hiram W. Johnson   Progressive
John D. Fredericks Republican
J. B. Curtin Democrat
Noble A. Richardson Socialist
Clinton P. Moore Prohibition

1918

William D. Stephens  
Republican
Progressive
Prohibition
Theodore A. Bell  Independent
Henry H. Roser Socialist
James Rolph, Jr. ?

1922

Friend W. Richardson   Republican
Thomas L. Woolwine Democrat
Alexander Horr Socialist

1926

Clement C. Young  Republican
Justus S. Wardwell Democrat
Upton Sinclair Socialist

1930

James Rolph, Jr.   Republican
Milton M. Young Democrat
Upton Sinclair Socialist

1934

Frank F. Merriam   Republican
Upton Sinclair Democrat
Raymond L. Haight
Commonwealth
Progrssive
Sam Darcy  Communist
Milen C. Dempster Socialist

1938

Culbert L. Olson   Democrat
Frank F. Merriam Republican
Raymond L. Haight Progressive
Robert Noble Commonwealth

1942

Earl Warren   Republican
Culbert L. Olson Democrat
Nathan T. Porter Townsend
Fred Dyster Prohibition

1946

Earl Warren  
Republican
Democrat
Henry R. Schmidt   Prohibition
Archie Brown ?
James Roosevelt ?
Robert W. Kenny ?
Albert Clark ?
Robert W. Long ?

1950

Earl Warren   Republican
James Roosevelt Democrat

1954

Goodwin J. Knight   Republican
Richard P. Graves Democrat

1958

Edmund G. Brown   Democrat
William F. Knowland Republican
William F. Gale ?
L. A. Delaney ?
Herbert Steiner ?

1962

Edmund G. Brown   Democrat
Richard M. Nixon Republican
Robert L. Wyckoff Prohibition

1966

Ronald Reagan   Republican
Edmund G. Brown Democrat

1970

Ronald Reagan   Republican
Jess Unruh Democrat
Ricardo Romo Peace and Freedom
William K. Shorter American Independent

1974

Edmund G. Brown, Jr.   Democrat
Houston I. Flournoy Republican
Edmon V. Kaiser American Independent
Elizabeth Keathley  Peace and Freedom

1978

Edmund G. Brown, Jr.   Democrat
Evelle J. Younger Republican
Ed Clark Independent

1982

George Deukmejian   Republican
Tom Bradley Democrat

1986

George Deukmejian   Republican
Tom Bradley Democrat

1990

Pete Wilson   Republican
Dianne Feinstein Democrat

1994

Pete Wilson   Republican
Kathleen Brown Democrat
Richard Rider  Libertarian
Jerome McCready American Independent
Gloria Estela La Riva Peace and Freedom

1998

Gray Davis   Democrat
Dan Lungren Republican
Dan Hamburg Green
Steve Kubby Libertarian
Gloria Estela La Riva Peace and Freedom 
Nathan Johnson American Independent
Harold Bloomfield Natural Law

 

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