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Lincoln Named President in 1860 Republican Victory
The 1860 Republican convention in Chicago chose Abraham Lincoln as the presidential nominee amid a split Democratic Party. Seward led on early ballots, but Lincoln secured the nomination after state shifts. Hamilton Hamlin named vice president. The Charleston convention fractured the Democrats and the nation moved toward secession and civil war.
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William H. Seward
New York
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Edwin D. Morgan
David Wilmot
Pennsylvania
George Ashman
Massachusetts
Preston King
Carl Schurz
Wisconsin
Kansas
Buchanan
New Territory
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
Simon Cameron
Salmon P. Chase
Ohio
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Missouri
William L. Dayton
New Jersey
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Heri
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Mr. Samuels
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Mississippi
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Delaware
Richmond
Breckenridge
Kentucky
Bell
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Union
Columbia
Floyd Buchanan
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Ala
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the Treasury
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Maryland
Jefferson Davis
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Fort Sumter
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