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Lincoln in his late 30s as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.Photo taken by one of Lincoln's law students around 1846. From the early 1830s, Lincoln was a steadfast Whig and professed to friends in 1861 to be "an old line Whig, a disciple of Henry Clay". [1]
(a) The states in rebellion did not participate in the election of 1864. (b) One Elector from Nevada did not vote (c) Andrew Johnson had been a Democrat, and after 1869 was a Democrat. The Republican Party called itself the National Union Party to accommodate the War Democrats in this election.
Congress Date Type Occasion Dignitary speaking 36th: February 13, 1861 Joint session Counting electoral votes for the 1860 presidential election: None 37th: March 4, 1861 Inauguration Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States February 22, 1862 Joint session Reading of Washington's Farewell Address
Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was issued September 22, 1862. [22] It became the principal issue before the public in the mid-term elections that year for the 38th Congress. But Republican majorities in both houses held (see 'Congress as a campaign machine' below), and the Republicans actually increased their majority in the ...
The 39th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. , from March 4, 1865, to March 4, 1867, during Abraham Lincoln 's final month as president , and the first two years of ...
The legislation alarmed many Northerners, who sought to prevent the spread of slavery that could result, but Douglas's Kansas–Nebraska Act narrowly passed Congress in May 1854. [113] Lincoln did not comment on the act until months later in his "Peoria Speech" of October 1854.
The 38th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. , from March 4, 1863, to March 4, 1865, during the last two years of President Abraham Lincoln 's first term in office .
This marks one of four occasions where a newly elected president entered office with a divided legislature, occurring again in 1876, 1884, and 1980. 1884 is the only other occasion where the president's party held the House, but not the Senate. A divided Congress also occurred after the 1984 and 2012 elections.