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Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois, where he resided from 1844 until becoming the nation's 16th president in 1861. Lincoln's second state house campaign in 1834, this time as a Whig, was a success over a powerful Whig opponent. [71] Then followed his four terms in the Illinois House of Representatives for Sangamon County. [72]
The last congressman to represent the National Union Party ended his affiliation with the party in March 1867. Johnson was impeached by the Republican-led House of Representatives in 1868 and was acquitted in the Senate by one vote. Upon the 1869 expiration of Johnson's only term as President, the National Union Party came to an end.
The party campaigned on preserving the union and took an official non-stance on slavery. [141] The Constitutional Union ticket won a plurality of the vote in three states, but Bell finished in fourth place in the national popular vote behind Republican Abraham Lincoln, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and pro-Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge ...
Douglas was the only candidate in the 1860 election to win electoral votes in both free and slave states. In the South, Bell won three states' electoral college seats, and Breckinridge swept the remaining 11. Lincoln's election motivated seven Southern states, all having voted for Breckinridge, to secede before Lincoln's inauguration in March
Following Lincoln's victory, all the slave states began to consider secession. Lincoln was not scheduled to take office until March 4, 1861, leaving incumbent Democratic President James Buchanan, a "doughface" from Pennsylvania who had been sympathetic to the South, to preside over the country until that time. [10]
The party did the leg work that produced majorities across the North, and produced an abundance of campaign posters, leaflets, and newspaper editorials. There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.
Republicans need to take back their party and use their power to make life better for common people rather than the powerful, our columnist writes. Opinion: Republicans who identify with Lincoln ...
Abraham Lincoln was the first president elected by the newly formed Republican Party, and Lincoln has been an iconic figure for American conservatives. Historian David Hackett Fischer stresses Lincoln's conservative views. In the 1850s, "Lincoln was a prosperous corporate lawyer, and a member of the conservative Whig party for many years."