1863 Alabama gubernatorial election

The 1863 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 3, 1863 in order to elect the governor of Alabama. Whig Thomas Hill Watts won his first term as governor.

Whig Party

 * Thomas H. Watts, 3rd Confederate States Attorney General

Democratic Party

 * John Gill Shorter, Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States; incumbent 17th Governor of Alabama
 * James F. Dowdell, member of the House of Representatives from Alabama, 1853–1859; colonel in the Confederate Army