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Election Day in Philadelphia (1815) by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall [1] and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions. In the 19th century, a number of new methods for conducting American election campaigns developed in the United States.
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Georgia, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1788, Georgia has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, when it had seceded in the American Civil War. Winners of the state are in bold.
Since 1824, a national popular vote has been tallied for each election, but the national popular vote does not directly affect the winner of the presidential election. The United States has had a two-party system for much of its history, and the major parties of the two-party system have dominated presidential elections for most of U.S. history ...
19th-century elections in the United States by state (10 C) 0–9. ... American election campaigns in the 19th century This page was last ...
American election campaigns in the 19th century; History of the United States (1865–1918) First inauguration of Grover Cleveland; 1884 United States House of Representatives elections; 1884–1885 United States Senate elections; President of the United States; Third Party System
The 1819 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on 5 November 1819 in order to elect the Governor of Georgia. Democratic-Republican candidate John Clark defeated fellow Democratic-Republican candidate and former United States Senator for Georgia George Troup in a Georgia General Assembly vote.
1856 Know-Nothing campaign poster. The American Party, formerly the Native American Party, was the vehicle of the Know Nothing movement. The American Party absorbed most of the former Whig Party that had not gone to either the Republicans or Democrats in 1854, and by 1855 it had established itself as the chief opposition party to the Democrats.
Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821 – November 30, 1894), often referred to as Joe Brown, was an American attorney and politician, serving as the 42nd Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, the only governor to serve four terms. He also served as a United States Senator from that state from 1880 to 1891.