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The 1860 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
1859–1860 Appling Appling H. R. Fort 1861–1863 3rd Appling, Silas Overstreet 1865–1866 3rd Appling, Elisha D. Graham 1868–1869 3rd Appling, Merritt Henderson 1870 3rd Appling, John C. Nicholls 1871–1874 3rd Appling, Daniel G. Hopps 1875–1877 3rd Appling, Gideon J. Holton 1878–1879 3rd Appling, Lemuel Johnson 1880–1881, 1884–1885
The state government of Georgia is the U.S. state governmental body established by the Georgia State Constitution. It is a republican form of government with three branches : the legislature , executive , and judiciary .
The state's chief cash crop, cotton, fell from a high of more than 700,000 bales in 1860 to less than 50,000 in 1865, while harvests of corn and wheat were also meager. [1] The state government subsidized construction of numerous new railroad lines.
Bulloch, who died in 1777, and his colleagues founded a republican government. In 1788 Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the new U.S. Constitution. Georgia had been settled along Atlantic Ocean and the Savannah River. The drive of settlers for westward expansion made territorial issues prominent.
Statue of Georgia Civil War Governor Joseph E. Brown and his wife. Joseph E. Brown died on November 30, 1894, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was honored by lying in state in the state capitol. [32] His tombstone is in Oakland Cemetery. [33] In 1928, a memorial statue of Brown and his wife was installed on the grounds of the State Capitol. [34]
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State delegation to the United States House of Representatives For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes. Darker shading indicates confirmed partisan affiliation or majority; lighter shading indicates likely, but unconfirmed, partisan affiliation or majority.