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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.
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 1860 United States elections elected the members of the 37th United States Congress. 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 ...
From statehood to 1864, California's representatives were elected at large, with the top two vote-getters winning the election from 1849 to 1858. In the 1860 census, California gained a seat in the House. California elected its members on September 4, 1861, after the first session of the new Congress began.
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. It emerged as the main political rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then.
General Election Results [1] Party Pledged to Elector Votes Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln Charles A. Tuttle 38,734 Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln Charles Washburn 38,733 Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln W. H. Weeks 38,720 Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln Antonio M. Pico 38,699 Democratic Party: Stephen A. Douglas Humphrey Griffith 38,023
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The Republican Party and the South, 1855-1877: The First Southern Strategy. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807816809. Lowe, Richard (1973). "The Republican Party in Antebellum Virginia, 1856-1860". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 81 (3). Virginia Historical Society: 259–79. doi:10.2307/4247810. JSTOR 4247810