ON THIS DATE: Nov. 6th 1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th - TopicsExpress



          

ON THIS DATE: Nov. 6th 1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:22:33 +0000

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