Ele Stansbury

Offices

Indiana House
Tippecanoe, Warren Counties
In office
Nov 5, 1902 to Nov 7, 1906

Party: Republican
Assumed: General Election
4 years, 3 days
Attorney General
Statewide
In office
Jan 1, 1917 to Jan 1, 1921

Party: Republican
Assumed: General Election
Left: Did Not Run
4 years, 1 day
Ele Stansbury spent 8 years, 4 days in office in Indiana, all of it at the state level.

Elections

1914–Attorney General LOST
General Election–Tuesday, November 3, 1914
42.57%
Richard McClellan Milburn*, Democratic, 266,663 votes
36.77%
Ele Stansbury, Republican, 230,296 votes
 14.52%
Arthur G. Manning, Progressive (Bull Moose), 90,921 votes
 3.46%
Harry J. Valentine, Socialist, 21,667 votes
 2.24%
Mercer Brown, Prohibition, 14,035 votes
 0.44%
Frank Herder, Socialist Labor, 2,787 votes
Out of 626,369 votes casts, the margin of victory was 36,367 (5.80%)
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1916–Attorney General WON
General Election–Tuesday, November 7, 1916
47.83%
Ele Stansbury*, Republican, 336,979 votes
46.01%
Evan Brown Stotsenburg (i), Democratic, 324,108 votes
 3.06%
Frank S. LaMont, Socialist, 21,591 votes
 2.23%
Tilghman E. Ballard, Prohibition, 15,742 votes
 0.64%
John H. Kingsbury, Progressive (Bull Moose), 4,486 votes
 0.22%
Henry Kuerst, Socialist Labor, 1,557 votes
Out of 704,463 votes casts, the margin of victory was 12,871 (1.82%)
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1918–Attorney General WON
General Election–Tuesday, November 5, 1918
52.75%
Ele Stansbury (i)*, Republican, 296,950 votes
43.90%
Evan Brown Stotsenburg, Democratic, 247,116 votes
 1.94%
Phillip H. Doty, Socialist, 10,900 votes
 1.42%
WIlliam Gray Lake, Prohibition, 7,986 votes
Out of 562,952 votes casts, the margin of victory was 49,834 (8.85%)
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In the 3 races for which we have results, Ele Stansbury had a record of 2-1. That includes a record of 2-1 in 3 general elections.