Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Amos W. Barber, who served as acting Governor for several years following the resignation of Governor Francis E. Warren, declined to run for re-election as Secretary of State.
State Auditor Charles W. Burdick was nominated at the Republican convention to run as Barber's successor.
[4] Hay defeated both Bolin and Populist nominee Wilbur F. Williams in a landslide.
Arthur J. Matthews, the superintendent of city schools in Rock Springs, was named by the Democratic convention as its candidate,[5] and Sarah H. Rollman was nominated by the Populist Party.
Reed defeated both by a sizable margin, becoming the first woman elected to statewide office in Wyoming.