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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1864, near the end of the American Civil War.Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote.
President Lincoln (center right) with, from left, Generals Sherman and Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen in March 1865. Grant was one of the few senior generals that Lincoln did not know personally, and the president was not able to visit the Western Theater of the war.
This is the electoral history of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln served one term in the United States House of Representatives from Illinois (1847–1849). He later served as the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865). [1]
In the presidential election, National Union Party nominee President Abraham Lincoln defeated Democratic nominee former General George B. McClellan. [5] Despite factionalism in the Republican Party and earlier concern about the progress of the war, Lincoln easily carried the popular vote and won the greatest share of the electoral vote since ...
On November 6, 1860, voters in the United States went to the polls in an election that ended with Abraham Lincoln as President, in an act that that led to the Civil War. But Lincoln’s actual ...
Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...
On March 4, 1925, nearly 100 years ago, President Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated for a second time. He served a partial term beginning in 1923 after the death of President Warren G. Harding.
Andrew Johnson, the 17th president, took the office of president in 1865 upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, a Republican, had selected Johnson, a Southern Democrat, to run on a ...