1862 New York state election
The 1862 New York state election was held on November 4, 1862, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, a Canal Commissioner, an Inspector of State Prisons and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.
Image: Hon. Horatio Seymour, N.Y NARA 528568 (cropped)
Image: JS Wadsworth civ
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