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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]
The Republican Party's production of campaign literature dwarfed the combined opposition; a Chicago Tribune writer produced a pamphlet that detailed Lincoln's life, and sold 100,000 to 200,000 copies. [66] In 1860, northern and western electoral votes (shown in red) put Lincoln into the White House.
Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President (1861–1865) The election of Lincoln as president in 1860 opened a new era of Republican dominance based in the industrial North and agricultural Midwest. The Third Party System was dominated by the Republican Party (it
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 ...
The Republican Party called itself the Union Party in 1864 and gave out this ballot for supporters to vote for Lincoln In the 1864 congressional elections , the party won 42 Senate seats (out of 54 senators seated, not including vacancies due to the secession of Confederate states) and 149 seats (out of 193) in the House of Representatives . [ 42 ]
It was held to nominate the Republican Party's candidates for president and vice president in the 1860 election. The convention selected former representative Abraham Lincoln of Illinois for president and Senator Hannibal Hamlin of Maine for vice president.
Lincoln and Johnson campaign poster. The party name was created in May 1864, during the Civil War, ahead of the 1864 presidential election, in which President Abraham Lincoln, then a Republican, was running for reelection.
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.