The 1888 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the 1888 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Texas was won by the incumbent President Grover Cleveland (D–New York), running with the former Senator and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Allen G. Thurman, with 65.70% of the popular vote, against former Senator Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana), running with Levi P. Morton, the 31st governor of New York, with 24.73% of the vote and former Illinois state representative Alson Streeter (UL–Illinois), running with Charles E. Cunningham, with 8.24% of the vote.
The Prohibition Party ran brigadier general Clinton B. Fisk and John A. Brooks and received 1.33% of the vote.
Campaign
Members of the Knights of Labor and former members of the Greenback Party attended a convention in Waco on July 5, 1887, and formed an affiliate of the Union Labor Party. Around 300 delegates, mostly members of the Farmers' Alliance, from seventy counties attended a convention on May 15, 1888, to consider possible electoral campaigns. The delegates appointed Mayor H.S. Broiles as a one-man executive committee and he called for a Nonpartisan Convention to be held on July 2–3. The Nonpartisan Convention created a platform and slate of candidates. The ULP endorsed these candidates and platform and William R. Lamb, the chair of the Nonpartisan Convention, was given a seat on the ULP executive committee.
Results
The electors in Texas for Grover Cleveland were as follows, according to an October 27, 1888 edition of The Lampasas Leader:
State at large- A. W. Terrell, J. W. Bailey
1st District- A. T. McKinney
2nd District- E. C. Dickinson
3rd District- R. C. DeGrafenried
4th District- Howard Templeton
5th District- J. H. Cobb
6th District- J. S. Woods
7th District- G. A. Levi
8th District- W. S. Fly
9th District- W. H. Richardson
10th District- J. H. McLeary
11th District- W. H. Cowan