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The Missouri gubernatorial special election of 1857 was Missouri’s twelfth gubernatorial election. The election was called to fill the remainder of the term of Trusten Polk who had resigned in February 1857 upon his election to the United States Senate. In the special election held on August 7 1857 the Democratic nominee Robert Marcellus Stewart defeated Know-Nothing candidate James S. Rollins (running under the American Party label) by a margin of only 334 votes.
