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His first wife, Sarah, and eldest son, Newton, who died when 4 years old. (George Caleb Bingham, ca 1841) In 1836, the year Missouri expanded with the Platte Purchase of former Native American territory (thus violating the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which had led to the state's creation), 25-year-old Bingham married 18-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Hutchison (1818–1848), who bore him four ...
The first painting made for the Election Series shows the voting process in Missouri. [32] The County Election depicts a variety of people from several different social classes, such as young boys playing a game, two men talking about the election happening around them, and a mass of men walking up the stairs to vote. [33]
Election Day in Philadelphia is a genre painting of a "bustling streetscape" on Chestnut Street outside Independence Hall. [3] Highlights include a parade towing an election float shaped like a longboat, a man pasting flyers on a wall, a brawl spilling out of a tavern, a drunk sprawled in the gutter, children and dogs playing in the street, and many groups of men and women in animated discussion.
This map of the 2004–2016 U.S. presidential elections uses county districts, a spatially intensive variable (difference in proportion) that is unclassed, and a spectral divergent color progression. Note the continuous gradient legend that reflects the lack of classification. Every choropleth map has a strategy for mapping values to colors.
The first three paintings, An Election Entertainment, Canvassing for Votes and The Polling, demonstrate the corruption endemic in parliamentary elections in the 18th century, before the Great Reform Act. The last painting, Chairing the Member, shows the celebrations of the victorious Tory candidates and their supporters.
The 1854 United States elections was the midterm election choosing members of the 34th United States Congress during the middle of Democratic President Franklin Pierce's term. It was part of the transition from the Second Party System to the Third Party System , as the Whigs collapsed as a national party and were replaced by a coalition running ...
Freedom of Speech was the first of a series of four oil paintings, entitled Four Freedoms, by Norman Rockwell.The works were inspired by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a State of the Union Address, known as Four Freedoms, delivered to the 77th United States Congress on January 6, 1941. [4]
This is the most recent election to date in which a third-party candidate won a non-Southern state. This was also the US election with the lowest per capita voter turnout since records were kept. [3] This election was the last time the Democratic nominee for vice president was a sitting governor until 2024. It was also the last time a ...