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.
Democratic primary
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
General election
Candidates
- Alexander W. Acheson, physician and former mayor of Denison
- Thomas Mitchell Campbell, attorney and general manager of the International–Great Northern Railroad
- C. A. Gray
- George Clifton Edwards, editor and publisher of the Laborer
- J. W. Pearson
- Arthur S. Dowler, postmaster of Finlay