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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 6, 1860. The Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin [2] won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states had already abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes.
A Constitutional Union campaign poster for the 1860 election in which are shown John Bell (left), the presidential nominee; and Edward Everett, the vice presidential nominee. The Constitutional Union Party was a political party which stood in the 1860 United States elections.
Map of the Presidential Election of 1860 between Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas German Karte des Wahlmännergremiums für die US-Präsidentenwahl 1860
John Bell (February 18, 1796 – September 10, 1869) was an American politician, attorney, and planter who was a candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1860. One of Tennessee 's most prominent antebellum politicians, [ 1 ] Bell served in the House of Representatives from 1827 to 1841, and in the Senate from 1847 to 1859.
The 1860 United States elections elected the members of the 37th United States Congress. The election marked the start of the Third Party System and precipitated the Civil War . The Republican Party won control of the presidency and both houses of Congress, making it the fifth party (following the Federalist Party , Democratic-Republican Party ...
A Wide Awakes parade in Lower Manhattan, one of a series of political rallies held in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, and Boston during the first week of October 1860. The Wide Awakes were a youth organization and later a paramilitary organization cultivated by the Republican Party during the 1860 presidential election in the United ...
The 1860 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 2, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 electors of the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Massachusetts was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln, who won the state by 42.57%.
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