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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 the states had already abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes.
Wood-frame "Wigwam" building specially designed for the 1860 Republican Convention in Chicago. By 1860 the dissolution of the Whig Party in America had become an accomplished fact, with establishment Whig politicians, former Free Soilers, and a certain number of anti-Catholic populists from the Know Nothing movement flocking to the banner of the fledgling anti-slavery Republican Party.
Elections for the 37th United States Congress, were held in 1860 and 1861.The election marked the start of the Third Party System and precipitated the Civil War.The Republican Party won control of the presidency and both houses of Congress, making it the fifth party (following the Federalist Party, Democratic-Republican Party, Democratic Party, and Whig Party) to accomplish such a feat.
William Jessup (June 21, 1797 – September 11, 1868) was a Pennsylvania judge and father of the missionary Henry Harris Jessup.A member of the Republican party, he is best known for being the chairman of the platform committee that crafted and reported the political platform adopted by the 1860 Republican National Convention and accepted by Abraham Lincoln, the party's nominee.
A Wide Awakes parade in Lower Manhattan, one of a series of political rallies held in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, and Boston during the first week of October 1860. The Wide Awakes were a youth organization and later a paramilitary organization cultivated by the Republican Party during the 1860 presidential election in the United ...
Pennington appointed a pro-tariff Republican majority to the Ways and Means Committee, with John Sherman of Ohio its chairman. The Morrill bill was passed out of the Ways and Means Committee. Near the end of first session of the Congress (December 1859–June 1860), on May 10, 1860, the bill was brought up for a floor vote and passed 105–64. [4]
The Republican National Convention was full of fanfare this year, as Donald Trump secured the nomination to officially run as the Republican candidate for president of the United States, along with...
April 3, 1860: Pony Express began its first run; April 23 – May 3, 1860: Democratic National Convention held in Charleston, South Carolina. [1] Unable to agree on a nominee, the delegates voted to reconvene in June. [2] May 9, 1860: Constitutional Union Party National Convention held in Baltimore, Maryland, nominating John Bell for president. [3]