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When Buchanan visited New York, Wood hosted major Democratic fundraisers for his campaign. Buchanan ultimately emerged victorious at the 1856 Convention, elevating Wood on the state and national stage. [5] In advance of the July state convention, Wood presented himself as a candidate for governor and hoped Buchanan would reciprocate his support.
The Soft state convention met on July 30 at Market Hall in Syracuse, New York, Gouverneur Kemble was Temporary Chairman. The Hard state convention met at the same time at Corinthian Hall in the same city, Samuel Fowler was Temporary Chairman. The Soft delegates adopted a resolution to unite with the Hards and marched to Corinthian Hall where ...
The 1856 New York gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1856. Incumbent Governor Myron Clark did not run for re-election to a second term in office. In the race to succeed him, John A. King defeated Amasa J. Parker and Erastus Brooks to become the first Republican elected Governor of New York.
Mexico is a town in the northeastern section of Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 5,197 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] The town contains a village also named Mexico .
New York was won by California Senator John C. Frémont (R–California), running with former Senator William L. Dayton , with 46.27 percent of the popular vote, against Senator James Buchanan (D–Pennsylvania), running with Representative and future presidential candidate in the 1860 presidential election John C. Breckinridge, with 32.84 ...
A French ship that sank following an 1856 collision has been found off the Massachusetts coast, according to a report. Lost ‘state-of-the-art’ French ship that sunk in 1856 found off ...
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...
Now, the man who had been considered an architect of Mexico’s anti-drug battle and a key partner of U.S. law enforcement is on trial in the same New York federal court.