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The 1860 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention that met May 16–18 in Chicago, Illinois. It was held to nominate the Republican Party 's candidates for president and vice president in the 1860 election .
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 the states had already abolished slavery, and a national majority in the electoral majority but one that was comprised only of electoral college seats of the northern states.
1 This convention was known as the National Union Convention. 2 This convention was known as the National Union Republican Convention. 3 Sherman, who had been elected vice president in 1908, died six days before the 1912 election; he was subsequently replaced as Republican vice-presidential nominee by Nicholas M. Butler of New York.
The Wigwam - 1860 Republican National Convention. The Wigwam was a convention center and meeting hall that served as the site of the 1860 Republican National Convention. [1] It was located in Chicago, Illinois, at Lake Street and Market (later Wacker Drive) near where the Chicago River divides into its north and south branches, on property owned by Garrett Theological Seminary. [2]
May 9, 1860: Constitutional Union Party National Convention held in Baltimore, Maryland, nominating John Bell for president. [3] May 18, 1860: Republican National Convention held in Chicago, Illinois, nominating Abraham Lincoln for president. June 18–23, 1860: Democratic Party reconvened in Baltimore, Maryland, nominating Stephen A. Douglas ...
Elections for the 37th United States Congress, were held in 1860 and 1861.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, Democratic Party, and Whig Party) to accomplish such a feat.
For more than a century, Chicago was the premier destination for national political conventions. From 1860 to 1968, the city hosted 24 Democratic and Republican party conventions, far more than ...
Nevertheless, going into the 1860 Republican National Convention in May in Chicago, Seward was seen as the overwhelming favorite. Others spoken of for the nomination included Ohio Governor Salmon P. Chase, former Missouri congressman Edward Bates , and former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln .