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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] Lincoln's second inaugural address at the nearly completed U.S. Capitol on March 4, 1865
It held the 1864 National Union Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president and Andrew Johnson for vice president in the 1864 United States presidential election. [2] Following Lincoln's successful re-election and assassination, Johnson tried and failed to sustain the Union Party as a vehicle for his presidential ambitions. [3]
Presidency of Abraham Lincoln March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865 ... President: Abraham Lincoln: 1861–1865 ... Lincoln told the party that he would seek to ratify a ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination. New York: St. Martin's. ISBN 978-0312374136. Egerton, Douglas (2010). Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1596916197. Foner, Eric (1970).