James Buchanan. Prior to becoming the 15th president, Buchanan practiced law in Pennsylvania and was elected to the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

1860: Republicans: Abraham Lincoln The Republican Party absorbed anti-slavery Whigs and most Know-Nothings. It became more moderate in its stance on the exclusion of slavery and denounced John ...

In 1860, on the cusp of the Civil War ... ready to receive and defend them. Inside the Republican Wigwam, the party chose Lincoln as nominee, after some complicated wrangling.

The Republican party, as such, has never been committed to it, nor have those among them who accept it as abstractly and theoretically true, ever sought to give it practical effect. No political ...

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...

Here we are, the site of the Wigwam in which Abraham Lincoln was nominated for president - 1860. JOHN SCHMIDT ... hopefuls were nominated to both Republican and Democratic ballots.

It is a 5-foot-tall cast stone marker and on one side is a plaque that tells of the Wigwam, a two-story building where in 1860 the Republican Party, formed only six years earlier in Wisconsin ...

From 1860 to 1968, the city hosted 24 Democratic and Republican party conventions, far more than any other city. The total included 14 Republican conventions and 10 Democratic conventions.

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

But Chicago has hosted more major party conventions than any other city ... but whether it can galvanize voters like the Republican convention of 1860. They began far from bustling Chicago, in orderly ...

But Chicago has hosted more major party conventions than any other ... but whether it can galvanize voters like the Republican convention of 1860. They began far from bustling Chicago, in orderly ...