John St. John (Governor of Kansas)
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John St. John | |
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John St. John
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8th Governor of Kansas | |
In office January 13, 1879 – January 8, 1883 |
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Lieutenant | Lyman U. Humphrey David W. Finney |
Preceded by | George T. Anthony |
Succeeded by | George W. Glick |
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Born | John Pierce St. John February 25, 1833 Franklin County, Indiana |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Olathe, Kansas |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Mary Jane Brewer, Susan J. Parker |
Profession | soldier, attorney, politician |
Religion | Congregationalist (preference); later, Christian Science |
John Pierce St. John (February 25, 1833 – August 31, 1916) was the eighth Governor of Kansas and a candidate for President of the United States in 1884.
St. John was born in Brookville, Indiana. He served as lieutenant colonel of the 143rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. From 1873 he sat in the Kansas Senate,[1] and was the Republican Governor of Kansas from 1879 to 1883. Active in the temperance movement, he successfully promoted a prohibition amendment to that state's constitution. St. John also helped create the Kansas Freedmen's Relief Association during the Great Exodus of African-Americans to Kansas in 1879.
He was the Prohibition Party candidate for President of the United States in the 1884 election. On October 2, 1884 he was nearly shot, with the bullet hitting the window next to him.[2] He received 147,482 votes (about 1.5%) on a ticket with William Daniel. The election was won by Grover Cleveland of the Democratic Party. St. John was also surpassed by two other unsuccessful candidates:
- James Gillespie Blaine of the Republican Party.
- Benjamin Franklin Butler of the United States Greenback Party.
St. John died after suffering heat exhaustion on August 31, 1916 in Olathe, Kansas.
The city of St. John, Kansas, is named after him.
See also
References
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Preceded by | Governor of Kansas 1879–1883 |
Succeeded by George W. Glick |
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Preceded by | Prohibition Party presidential nominee 1884 (lost) |
Succeeded by Clinton B. Fisk |
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- People from Brookville, Indiana
- People of Illinois in the American Civil War
- Kansas State Senators
- Governors of Kansas
- Prohibition Party (United States) presidential nominees
- United States presidential candidates, 1884
- American temperance activists
- Union Army officers
- 1833 births
- 1916 deaths
- Kansas Republicans
- Kansas Prohibitionists
- American Congregationalists
- American Christian Scientists
- Republican Party state governors of the United States