Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1864, near the end of the American Civil War. Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the D
Abraham Lincoln 1863 Portrait
George Mc Clellan 2
President Abraham Lincoln
Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant from Illinois
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 United States presidential election
…elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1864, near the end of the American Civil War. Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular…
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