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The pre-war Republican Party was especially weak in the Pacific states, where Lincoln gained 32 percent (in California) and 36 percent (in Oregon) of the vote, respectively, in 1860; here, as in Rhode Island, Republicans were junior partners in a Union Party coalition dominated by Douglas Democrats and Constitutional Unionists.
The Democratic Party was deeply split, with some leaders and most soldiers openly for Lincoln. The National Union Party was united by Lincoln's support for emancipation. State Republican parties stressed the perfidy of the Copperheads. [275] On November 8, Lincoln carried all but three states, including 78 percent of Union soldiers. [276]
On accepting the National Union Party nomination in 1864, Lincoln told the party that he would seek to ratify a constitutional amendment that would abolish slavery in the United States. [146] After winning re-election, Lincoln made ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment (as it would become known) a top priority.
The party, including Lincoln, favored economic modernization in banking, protective tariffs to fund internal improvements including railroads, and espoused urbanization as well. [2] Lincoln won election to the House of Representatives in 1846, where he served one two-year term.
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).
The Republican Party began as the party of Lincoln. Lincoln is remembered and revered for his determination to hold the union together. From an early age, Lincoln viewed slavery as wrong, but his ...
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.
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.