Abraham Lincoln Presidential Election Campaign of 1860 Portrait and Biography Harpers Weekly
by Peter Ogden
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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Election Campaign of 1860 Portrait and Biography Harpers Weekly
Artist
Peter Ogden
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Drawing - Lithograph
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This is a restored copy of the May 26, 1860 front page of Harper's Weekly, New York featuring a portrait and biography of presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln.
The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin emerged triumphant. The election of Lincoln served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War.
The United States had become increasingly divided during the 1850s over sectional disagreements, especially regarding the extension of slavery into the territories. Incumbent President James Buchanan, like his predecessor Franklin Pierce, was a northern Democrat with sympathies for the South. During the mid-to-late 1850s, the anti-slavery Republican Party became a major political force in the wake of the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the Supreme Court's decision in the 1857 case of Dred Scott v. Sandford. By 1860, the Republican Party had replaced the defunct Whig Party as the major opposition to the Democrats. A group of former Whigs and Know Nothings formed the Constitutional Union Party, which sought to avoid secession by pushing aside the issue of slavery.
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