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[171] [172] Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes, or 39.8% of the total in a four-way race, carrying the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon. [173] His victory in the Electoral College was decisive: Lincoln had 180 votes to 123 for his opponents. [174]
Stuart, who was confident of his own victory, told Lincoln to go ahead and accept the Democrats' endorsement. On August 4 Lincoln polled 1,376 votes, the second highest number of votes in the race, and won one of the four seats in the election, as did Stuart. [119] Lincoln was reelected to the state legislature in 1836, 1838, and 1840.
1913: The Senate votes on a women's suffrage amendment, but it does not pass. [3] 1914: Nevada grants women suffrage. [3] 1914: Montana grants women suffrage. [3] 1914: The Congressional Union alienates leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association by campaigning against anti-suffrage Democrats in the congressional elections. [3]
Jeannette Rankin, elected in 1916 by Montana as the first woman in Congress, was one of fifty members of Congress to vote against the declaration of war. [255] In November 1917, a referendum to enfranchise women in New York – at that time the most populous state in the country – passed by a substantial margin. [256]
Source (Electoral Vote): "Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996". National Archives and Records Administration (a) The states in rebellion did not participate in the election of 1864. (b) One Elector from Nevada did not vote (c) Andrew Johnson had been a Democrat, and after 1869 was a Democrat. The Republican Party called itself the National ...
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.
Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was issued September 22, 1862. [22] It became the principal issue before the public in the mid-term elections that year for the 38th Congress. But Republican majorities in both houses held (see 'Congress as a campaign machine' below), and the Republicans actually increased their majority in the ...
A National Education Association survey showed that between 1930 and 1931, 63% of cities dismissed female teachers as soon as they became married, and 77% did not hire married women as teachers. [235] Also, a survey of 1,500 cities from 1930 to 1931 found that three-quarters of those cities did not employ married women for any jobs. [236]