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Election of 1856 (McPherson, 2001) Textbook. By nominating John C. Frémont - whose father was a Catholic and who had himself been married by a Catholic priest – the Republicans dismayed some of their nativist supporters. But Frémont’s nomination was a calculated gamble to attract ex-Democrats.
The election also featured the new Republican Party, which offered the dashing explorer John C. Fremont as its candidate. Republicans accused the Democrats of trying to nationalize slavery through the use of popular sovereignty in the West, a view captured in the 1856 political cartoon Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Free Soiler .
Buchanan only won the election because his electoral vote in the South was larger than Fremont’s in the North. (Item #630) The election of 1856 signaled the end of an era, going forward, “sectional loyalties rather than party ties would determine the fate of the Union.” (Niven 1990, 99)
Party Nominees: Electoral Vote: Popular Vote Presidential: Vice Presidential Democratic: James Buchanan: John C. Breckinridge: 174: 58.8%: 1,836,072: 45.3%
Aug 26, 2018 · The Presidential Election of 1856 was a heated election that pitted 3 candidates and parties against each other: The central issue was slavery, with heated topics like the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas taking center stage. James Buchanan would win the election with 45% of the popular vote.
The United States presidential election of 1856 was an unusually heated election campaign that led to the election of James Buchanan, the ambassador to the United Kingdom. Republican candidate John C. Frémont condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and crusaded against the Slave Power and the expansion of slavery, while Democrat James Buchanan ...
Dec 20, 2023 · This collection consists of published congressional records of the United States of America from 1774 to 1875. On February 11, 1857, the Electoral College votes for the presidential election of 1856 were counted by a joint session of Congress and reported in the Congressional Globe, as well as in the Senate Journal and the House Journal.
