The 1864–65 United States House of Representatives elections were held between June 5, 1864, and November 7, 1865, to elect the 192 members and nine non-voting delegates of the House of Representative
Schuyler Colfax portrait
Hon. James Brooks
The National Union Party, commonly known as the Union Party, and sometimes as the Republican–Union coalition, was a coalition of Republicans, War Democrats, and Unconditional Unionists that supported
1864–65 United States House of Representatives elections
…were held between June 5, 1864, and November 7, 1865, to elect the 192 members and nine non-voting delegates of the House of Representatives. The National Union Party expanded their existing majority against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Candidates listed as Republicans and Unionists won 99 seats in…
1864 National Union Party campaign banner
John Bell (left) and Edward Everett, candidates of the Constitutional Union Party in 1860
William H. Seward, secretary of state in Lincoln's administration and a key contributor to the Union Party strategy
First inauguration of Abraham Lincoln at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 4, 1861