In state elections across the country, three Republican governors were reelected to their second terms in Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.  Alexander Bullock won his second of what would be four one-year terms as Massachusetts chief executive, Civil War veteran William Marshall secured a second two-year term in Minnesota, and Lucius Fairchild, who lost an arm at Gettysburg, was reelected to his second of three terms as Wisconsin governor.  (By John Osborne)

A constitutional convention made up entirely of elected Democrat delegates had formulated a new ruling document for Maryland over the summer and it came into effect on October 5, 1867.  The first state wide elections under the Constitution of 1867 were held on this day and resulted in smashing victories for the Democrats as the white population, still significantly ant-Union, turned against the Republican Party.  Oden Bowie, the Democratic candidate, received around three quarters of the just over eighty-five thousand ballots cast across the Commonwealth.  Under the constitution, Bowie would not take office until January 1869 but Republicans would have to wait until 1896 for another of their party to sit in the governor's mansion. (By John Osborne)

The first elections under the new Maryland Constitution of 1867 were held to elect judges, city council members, and a mayor in the city of Baltimore.  Robert Tunstall Banks, a conservative Unionist who was rejoining the Democratic Party ranks defeated the Republican mayoral candidate A.W. Denison, taking seventy-five percent of the vote.  Democrat also controlled most city offices. it would be 1885 before a Republican was again elected mayor of Baltimore.  (By John Osborne)