Presidential election in the United States, 1860

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19th presidential election
November 6, 1860
			Republican Party
			Abraham Lincoln / Hannibal Hamlin
			electors					180
			be right				1,865,908
									39.8%
			South Democrats
			John C. Breckinridge / Joseph Lane
			electors					72
			be right				848.019
									18.1%
			Constitutional Union
			John Bell / Edward Everett
			electors					39
			be right				590.901
									12.6%
			Northern Democrats
			Stephen A. Douglas / Herschel Vespasian Johnson
			electors					12
			be right				1.380.202
									29.5%
Election results by state
17   Lincoln / Hamlin						11   Breckinridge / Lane
3   Bell / Everett						1   Douglas / Johnson
President of the United States
Before the election James Buchanan's Democratic Party						Elected Abraham Lincoln Republican Party

In the US presidential election of 1860 , Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States of America . He was the first from the ranks of the Republican Party . The Vice President elected with him was Hannibal Hamlin .

There were four major candidates for the post of the President: Abraham Lincoln , who took for the Republicans, John Cabell Breckinridge for the Democrats of the South (Southern Democratic), Stephen Arnold Douglas for the Democrats of the Northern states (Northern Democratic) and John Bell for Constitutional Union formed from the Whigs .

Since the Republicans were in favor of the abolition of slavery , 11 southern states declared their independence in the months after the election and formed the Confederate States . This led to the war of secession (civil war).

literature

• A. James Fuller (Ed.): The Election of 1860 Reconsidered . Kent State University Press, Kent (OH) 2013, ISBN 978-1-60635-148-2 .
• Michael S. Green: Lincoln and the Election of 1860 . Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale (IL) 2011, ISBN 978-0-8093-3035-5 .
• Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 167-177 (= Chapter 21: Abraham Lincoln's Initial Election. ).

Movies

• Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen A. Douglas . USA 2016, 41-minute documentary (CNN) by Christopher Spencer for the series Race for the White House .

Web links

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