Question: Jerrold B. Speers sought the Maine Republican Party's nomination for the gubernatorial election to replace an American politician born on what date?
Context: The Georgia gubernatorial election of 1962 was held on November 6.  This election was notable for a number of reasons: First, it was the last gubernatorial election in Georgia to date where the Republican Party did not field a candidate.  Second, the primary election was the first that took place under a winner-take-all system, as the previously used County Unit System had been struck down by the US Supreme Court in "Gray v. Sanders."  Finally, upon election, Carl Sanders became the youngest governor of a state at the time (aged 37) and the first governor from an urban area since the 1920s. The 1970 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1970.  State Senator Rudy Perpich of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party defeated Duluth Mayor Ben Boo of the Republican Party of Minnesota.  The 1970 lieutenant gubernatorial election was the final lieutenant gubernatorial election held before the Minnesota Constitution was amended to provide for elections of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor on a joint ticket. Bill Bryant is an American politician from the state of Washington.  A member of the Republican Party, he was Seattle Port Commissioner from 2008 to 2015.  In the 2016 Washington gubernatorial election, he received the Republican Party nomination for state governor, but lost the election to incumbent governor Jay Inslee. The Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1892 was held on April 19, 1892.  Like most Southern states between Reconstruction and the civil rights era, Louisiana's Republican Party was virtually nonexistent in terms of electoral support.  In addition, the Republican Party had split into two factions, each supporting a different candidate.  As Louisiana had not yet adopted party primaries, this meant that the Democratic Party convention nomination vote was supposed to be the real contest over who would be governor.  At the convention, pro-lottery former Governor Samuel D. McEnery was nominated.  As a result of the nomination of a pro-lottery candidate, a group of anti-lottery Democrats nominated their own candidate, State Senator Murphy J. Foster.  In addition to the four candidates already mentioned, the increasingly popular Populists nominated R. H. Tannehill and their candidate.  Despite all of this, Senator Foster was elected with 45% of the vote with a comfortable 19% margin between him and McEnery, who placed second.  This election marked the last time until 1979 that the official Democratic Party nominee was defeated. The Republican Moderate Party of Alaska is a political party in Alaska formed by Ray Metcalfe in 1986 as an alternative to what Metcalfe perceived to be a Republican Party dominated by the Religious Right.  Only one candidate has ever won an election, a 2002 race for the state senate, but that candidate (Thomas Wagoner) re-affiliated with the Republican Party the day after the election.  The Republican Moderate Party has extensive litigation-related history, due in no small part to its minor party status.  Previous cases have included ballot access rights and an early challenge to its name by the Republican Party of Alaska.  After a record of success in the 1990s, its support has slowly dwindled, ending with just 0.63% of the 2002 gubernatorial election.  State law requires that 3% of registered voters vote for a party or be registered to it for recognition.  A court challenge initially overturned this law, holding that it was more restrictive than what the state required of independent candidates, but resulted in the original law being upheld by the Alaska Supreme Court on the grounds that a party candidate has more impact than an independent candidate.  The party has since been recognized by the state again.  As of October 2010 there were 2,719 members statewide. Pamela Cahill is an American lawyer and politician from Maine.  Cahill, was elected to seven consecutive terms between the Maine House of Representatives (1981-1986) and Maine Senate (1987-1994).  The Woolwich, Maine Republican served in leadership positions, both as Assistant Minority Leader and Minority Leader.  She ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for Governor in the Maine gubernatorial election, 1994.  She was twice elected Assistant Secretary of the Maine Senate, in both 1994 and 2000.  She also served as Chairwoman of the Maine Republican Party. James Bernard Longley Sr. (April 22, 1924 – August 16, 1980) was an American politician.  He served as the 69th Governor of Maine from 1975 to 1979, and was the first Independent to hold the office.  In 1949, he married the former Helen Angela Walsh, who died on September 13, 2005.  They had five children, including former Republican U.S. Representative James B. Longley Jr. (born 1951).  Longley Sr., a graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, resided in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine. Jerrold B. Speers (born 1942) is a Maine politician and lawyer.  Speers represented Winthrop, Maine and the surrounding area as Majority Leader of the Maine Senate as well as state treasurer from 1978 to 1980.  In 1978, Speers sought the Maine Republican Party's nomination for the gubernatorial election to replace Independent James B. Longley.  He ran a low-profile campaign with only one paid staffer and lost to Linwood Palmer.  Following the election of Democrat Joseph E. Brennan, the Maine Legislature elected Speers state treasurer. Allen Alley (born August 3, 1954) is an American businessman and Republican politician from the State of Oregon.  He sought the Republican nomination for Governor of Oregon in the 2016 Oregon gubernatorial special election, losing to Bud Pierce.  Alley also sought the Republican nomination in 2010, but lost to Chris Dudley.  Alley was the Republican nominee for Oregon State Treasurer in 2008 and also served as Chairman of the Oregon Republican Party from January 2011 to February 2013. The 1998 Georgia Gubernatorial Election was held on November 3, 1998.  Incumbent Democratic Governor of Georgia Zell Miller was unable to seek re-election due to term limits, therefore creating an open seat.  To replace him, State Representative Roy Barnes won the Democratic Party's nomination after a close and highly contested primary election, while businessman Guy Millner, who had run for Governor and the United States Senate in the previous four years, won the nomination of the Republican Party.  In the general election, Barnes was able to defeat Millner by a margin of victory larger than Governor Miller's victory over Millner four years prior, which was in part due to the unpopularity and controversy of Mitch Skandalakis, the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia.  As of 2017, this is the most recent election in which a Democrat was elected Governor of Georgia.
Answer: April 22, 1924