1854 New York state election
The 1854 New York state election was held on November 7, 1854, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, a Canal Commissioner and an Inspector of State Prisons, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.
Image: Horatio Seymour Brady Handysmall
Image: General Daniel Ullman
Image: Greene C Bronson
Horatio Seymour was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 United States presidential election, losing to Republican Ulysses S. Grant.
Portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1860–1865
Campaign rally celebrating Seymour's election
Seymour in an undated photograph
Campaign badge, 1868, from the New York Public Library, Schomberg Collection