1910 South Carolina gubernatorial election

Martin Frederick Ansel Democratic Coleman Livingston Blease Democratic The 1910 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1910, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina.

Coleman Livingston Blease won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to become the 90th governor of South Carolina.

Coleman Livingston Blease, a lawyer from Newberry, sought to portray himself as the candidate for the downtrodden and oppressed white man who had not benefited from the Tillman era.

Blease and prohibitionist candidate Claudius Cyprian Featherstone emerged as the front runners in the Democratic primary on August 30.

On September 13, Blease won by just over 5,000 votes in the runoff to essentially become the next governor of South Carolina because there was no opposition in the general election.