1848 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
The 1848 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on May 8, 1848. This was the election for the first Governor of Wisconsin, which became a U.S. state that year, as it was held concurrent with a public referendum to ratify the Constitution of Wisconsin.
Image: Nelson Dewey
Image: John Hubbard Tweedy (Wisconsin Congressman)
John Hubbard Tweedy was a delegate to the United States Congress from Wisconsin Territory from March 1847 to May 1848 being elected from the Whig Party. He was also the Whig Party nominee in first Wisconsin gubernatorial election, where he lost to Nelson Dewey.
From Volume 27 (1919) of Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin