1906 Texas gubernatorial election

The 1906 Texas gubernatorial election was held to elect the Governor of Texas. Thomas Mitchell Campbell was elected to a two-year term in office.

This was the first election in which a party held a primary to determine its nominee. Thomas Mitchell Campbell won the Democratic nomination over a four-man field including M. M. Brooks, Oscar Branch Colquitt and Charles K. Bell; his victory was tantamount to election with the Republican Party already weak in Texas and deeply divided at the time.

Candidates

 * Charles K. Bell, Attorney General of Texas and former U.S. Representative from Hamilton
 * Micajah Madison Brooks, associate justice of the Court of Criminal Appeals
 * Thomas Mitchell Campbell, attorney and general manager of the International–Great Northern Railroad
 * Oscar Branch Colquitt, member of the Texas Railroad Commission

Candidates

 * Alexander W. Acheson, physician and former mayor of Denison (Reorganized Republican)
 * Thomas Mitchell Campbell, attorney and general manager of the International–Great Northern Railroad (Democratic)
 * C. A. Gray (Republican)
 * George Clifton Edwards, editor and publisher of the Laborer (Socialist)
 * J. W. Pearson (Prohibition)
 * Arthur S. Dowler, postmaster of Finlay (Socialist Labor)

Acheson was the candidate of the "black and tan" faction of the Republicans, while Gray was nominated by the "lily-white movement" which sought to exclude non-white men from the party.