1938 Arizona gubernatorial election

1938 Arizona gubernatorial election

← 1936 November 8, 1938 1940 →
 
Nominee Robert Taylor Jones Jerrie W. Lee
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 80,350 32,022
Percentage 68.57% 27.33%

County results
Jones:      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

Rawghlie Clement Stanford
Democratic

Elected Governor

Robert Taylor Jones
Democratic

The 1938 Arizona gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1938. Incumbent Governor Rawghlie Clement Stanford declined to run for reelection, with pharmacy and cattle ranch owner Robert Taylor Jones winning the Democratic nomination to succeed Stanford.

Robert Taylor Jones defeated Jerrie W. Lee in the general election, and was sworn into his first and only term as Governor on January 2, 1939, becoming Arizona's sixth Governor.


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