Further complications arose in Oregon: although both sides acknowledged that Hayes had won the state, Tilden's supporters questioned the constitutional eligibility of John W. Watts, as the Hayes elector (the Constitution of the United States provides that "no…person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States shall be appointed an elector"). Watts was a United States postmaster; however, he resigned from his office a week after the election, long before the scheduled meeting of the Electoral College. Nevertheless, the state's Democratic governor, La Fayette Grover, removed Watts as an elector, replacing him with Democrat C.A. Cronin.