People's Party (Indiana)
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The Indiana People's Party was a short-lived American political party in the state of Indiana. It participated in the United States House of Representatives election of 1854, and continued to function
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Oliver P. Morton
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Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, commonly known as Oliver P. Morton, was a U.S. Republican Party politician from Indiana. He served as the 14th governor of Indiana during the American Civil War, and
People's Party (Indiana)
…People's Party Leader Henry S. Lane Oliver P. Morton Founded 1854 Dissolved 1860 (1860) Preceded by Whig Party Democratic Party (anti-extension faction) Know Nothing-influenced elements Merged into…
Morton's house in Centerville
Oliver P. Morton after his first stroke
Thomas Nast asks Morton and three other huffy-looking inflationist senators, Simon Cameron, John A. Logan, and Matthew Carpenter, to pardon him for his caricatures, Harper's Weekly, June 6, 1874