1869 Tennessee gubernatorial election
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The 1869 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on August 5, 1869, to elect the next governor of Tennessee. Incumbent Republican governor Parson Brownlow was elected to the United States Senate and resigned as governor on February 25, 1869. Republican Dewitt Clinton Senter, being the speaker of the Tennessee Senate, became governor following Brownlow's resignation.
Senter, who ran as a Conservative Republican, ran for a full term and easily defeated Radical Republican Congressman from Tennessee's 3rd congressional district William Brickly Stokes.
The Tennessee Republican Party held its convention on February 25, 1869, and gave its gubernatorial nomination to Governor Dewitt Clinton Senter.