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1 day ago · Abraham Lincoln ( / ˈlɪŋkən / LING-kən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
17 hours ago · The election of the president and the vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College. [note 1] These electors then ...
2 days ago · From 1828 to 1856 the Democrats won all but two presidential elections (1840 and 1848). During the 1840s and ’50s, however, the Democratic Party, as it officially named itself in 1844, suffered serious internal strains over the issue of extending slavery to the Western territories.
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1 day ago · Gore. Fast forward to modern times, and the 2000 presidential election between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore is widely considered the closest race in recent US history. On election night, the contest was simply too close to call. Gore had won the national popular vote by a margin of about 540,000 votes out of 101 million cast.
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5 days ago · James Buchanan won the Democratic nomination in the presidential election of 1856 over incumbent president Franklin Pierce. Who was the first presidential nominee of the newly created Republican Party that was defeated by Buchanan in the general election?
3 days ago · The Whig Party formed in the second quarter of the 19th century, to oppose president Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party. The term Whig came into common use in 1834, and persisted until the disintegration of the party after the presidential election of 1856. http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/side/whig.html. 10.
4 days ago · Based on the historical correlations and the Dow’s year-to-date price-only gain of 5.6%, Biden’s chances of winning re-election are 58.8%.
