Maryland Democrats had regained control of the state legislature from the Unconditional Unionists in late 1866 and had immediately set out to reform the detested Constitution of 1864.  In April 1867, a referendum on a constitutional convention was passed easily and 118 delegates chosen, every one of them a Democrat.  The convention met for the first time in early May 1867 and worked through the summer. The convention completed its work on August 17, 1867 and prepared the document for a swift confirmation by popular vote.  On this day, the resulting vote was almost seventy percent in favor and the Constitution of 1867 came into effect on October 5, 1867, in time for the November elections.  It remains in the twenty-first century Maryland's governing document.  (By John Osborne) 

Maryland Democrats had regained control of the state legislature from the Unconditional Unionists in late 1866 and had immediately set out to reform the detested Constitution of 1864.  In April 1867, a referendum on a constitutional convention was passed easily and 118 delegates chosen, every one of them a Democrat.  The convention met for the first time in early May 1867 and worked through the summer. On this day, the convention completed its work and prepared the document for a confirmation by popular vote, to be held the next month. The vote was heavily in favor and the Constitution of 1867 remains in the twenty-first century as Maryland's ruling document.  (By John Osborne) 

Maryland Democrats had regained control of the state legislature from the Unconditional Unionists several months before and had immediately set out to reform the detested Constitution of 1864.  On this day a referendum on a constitutional convention was passed easily and 118 delegates chosen, every one of them a Democrat.  The resulting Constitution of 1867 revamped politics in Maryland and the document, confirmed in a September 1867 popular vote, remains in the twenty-first century as Maryland's ruling document.  (By John Osborne) 

Union Army hero Joshua Chamberlain won the second of his four one year terms as governor of Maine with a victory over the man he faced in three of the first four of these contests, Democrat Eben F. Pillsbury.  Chamberlain had won the year before with more that 62% of the vote; his 1867 victory was narrower, but still with a ten percent advantage.  Chamberlain more easily beat Pillsbury again in 1868 and then defeated Democrat Franklin Smith in 1869 before retiring from state politics to return to his teaching post at Bowdoin College.  (By John Osborne)

John LaRue Helm, who had been Kentucky governor once previously between 1850 and 1851 and who had had a son killed as a Confederate flag officer at Chickamauga, easily defeated Republican S. M. Barnes and a Union Democrat named W.B. Kinkead in the August state elections.  Helm only served a few days as the state's twenty fourth governor, hovever.  Too ill to travel to the capital, he had been sworn in at home in Elizabethtown on September 3, 1867 but died there five days later.  Lieutenant Governor John W. Stevenson succeeded him, continuing a Democratic hold on the office that would continue to 1895.  (By John Osborne) 

Democrats had held the governor's office in Kentucky since 1859 and this did not change in the 1867 state elections.  John LaRue Helm, who had been governor once previously between 1850 and 1851 and who had had a son killed as a Confederate flag officer at Chickamauga, easily defeated Republican S. M. Barnes and a Union Democrat named W.B. Kinkead.  Helm only served five days as the state's twenty fourth governor, hovever, succumbing to illness on September 8, 1867.  Lieutenant Governor John Stevenson succeeded him, continuing a Democratic hold on the office that would continue to 1895.  (By John Osborne) 

In Iowa, the Republican Party retained control of the governor's mansion in state elections held on this day.  Samuel Merrill defeated the former Iowa chief justice and prominent anti-Lincoln Democrat Charles Mason.  Merrill carried just over 57% of the ballots cast.  Republicans had held the governor's office since 1858 and would do so till 1890.  (By John Osborne)