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The 1864–65 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. They occurred during the American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln's re-election.As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures.
The elections were held during the American Civil War. Lincoln would be assassinated shortly into his second term. In the presidential election, National Union Party nominee President Abraham Lincoln defeated Democratic nominee former General George B. McClellan. [5]
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.
In these elections, terms were up for the senators in Class 3. These elections corresponded with Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency. The nascent Republican Party increased their Senate seats in the regular elections, and after southern Democrats withdrew to join the Confederacy, Republicans gained control of the Senate. To establish a ...
The 1864 Democratic National Convention was held at The Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, United States. [1] The Convention nominated Major General George B. McClellan from New Jersey for president, and Representative George H. Pendleton of Ohio for vice president. McClellan, age 37 at the time of the convention, and Pendleton, age 39, are the ...
The North Carolina state Senate map passed by the General Assembly on Oct. 25, 2023, to use in the 2024 elections. ... North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton has vowed that more ...
Elections held in Missouri and Kentucky seated all members to the House and Senate for the 38th Congress. Elections held among Unionists in Virginia, Tennessee and Louisiana were marred by disruption resulting in turnouts that were so low compared with 1860, that Congress did not reseat the candidates with a majority of the votes cast.
And North Carolina voters appear to be more conservative on abortion than the rest of the nation: In a recent poll from SurveyUSA/WRAL-TV, a plurality (43 percent) of North Carolina adults ...