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unusual facts about United States presidential election, 1860



Abraham Jefferson Seay

He would spend years reading law materials at irregular intervals until in August, 1860, Seay moved to Cherryville, Missouri where he entered a law office.

Allan McFarlane

Their home until around 1860 was "Glensloy", near Mount Barker Junction (midway between Balhannah and Littlehampton).

American Violet

Set in the midst of the 2000 presidential election, American Violet tells the story of a young mother named Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a 24 year-old African-American single mother of four living in the town of Melody (based on Hearne, Texas, where the real incident took place).

Anders Uppström

A journey in 1860 to Rome, Milan, and Wolfenbüttel, financed by the sons of his childhood patron Petré, resulted in Fragmenta gothica selecta (1861) and another journey to the Ambrosian Library in Milan in 1863 to study the so-called Ambrosian Gothic manuscripts led to Codices gotici ambrosiani, which was published posthumously by his son Anders Erik Wilhelm Uppström in 1868.

Ann Blyth

In the December 1952 edition of Motion Picture and Television Magazine Ann Blyth stated in an interview that she endorsed Dwight D. Eisenhower for president the month before in the 1952 presidential election.

Archibald Austin

Afterwards, he resumed practicing law and was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1832 and 1836.

Bardiya National Park

For 45 years it was a part of British India and returned to Nepal in 1860 in recognition for supporting the suppression of the Indian Independence movement in 1857.

Barry Yelverton, 3rd Viscount Avonmore

Adelaide Matilda Yelverton (1821–1884), married 1860, Lt-Gen Humphrey Lyons, Indian Army

Belva Ann Lockwood

She ran in the presidential elections of 1884 and 1888.

Benjamin Alvord

Benjamin Alvord, Jr. (1860–1927), son of the above, American soldier, U.S. general during World War I

Charles Henry Jeens

About 1860 he became associated with Macmillan & Co., for whose Golden Treasury series and other publications he produced many vignettes, and portraits including a series of Scientific Worthies in Nature.

Christian Johansson

Christian Johansson's daughter, the ballerina Anna Christianovna Johansson (1860-1917), was a celebrated soloist of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet and created roles in nearly every important premiere throughout the late 1880s, until burn injuries forced her to retire in 1895.

Democrats for Nixon

Democrats for Nixon was a campaign to promote Democratic support for the then-incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election.

Dickson Range

Penrose was named for Republican Senator Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860–December 31, 1921) who climbed it in the 1920s while hunting with famed local big-game outfitter W.G. (Bill) Manson.

Edward Salomon

He was lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 1860 to 1862 before becoming governor after Harvey drowned in the Tennessee River while visiting Wisconsin troops after the Battle of Shiloh.

Elections in West Virginia

Mitt Romney won the state in the 2012 presidential election with 62% of the vote, a significant improvement over McCain's 56% vote share in 2008 and the first tine in modern American history that a Republican candidate for president won every county in the state .

Eugene Puryear

Eugene Puryear (born February 28, 1986 in Charlottesville, Virginia) is an American activist who was the vice presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in the 2008 United States presidential election.

Henry B. Carrington

In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the following year moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced his profession in partnership with William Dennison, Jr. (who was to become Governor of Ohio in 1860).

Italian irredentism in Savoy

On 16 March 1860, the provinces of Northern Savoy (Chablais, Faucigny and Genevois) sent to Victor Emmanuel II, to Napoleon III, and to the Swiss Federal Council a declaration - sent under the presentation of a manifesto together with petitions - where they were saying that they did not wish to become French and shown their preference to remain united to the Kingdom of Sardinia (or be annexed to Switzerland in the case a separation with Piedmont was unavoidable).

Jean de Pauly

Jean de Pauly (Albania, 1860 – Lyon, 1903) was the translator of French editions of the portions of the Talmud and the first complete translation of the Zohar .

Jefferson Street Grounds

It was home to the Philadelphia Athletics from 1871 to 1876, five seasons in the

John Rugee

He was also a Presidential Elector for the 1884 United States Presidential Election.

John Weeks

John W. Weeks (1860–1926), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and Secretary of War

Joseph Projectus Machebeuf

He served as pastor at Albuquerque (1853–1858) and at Santa Fe (1858–1860) before being transferred to Colorado, where he was thrown from his carriage while descending a spur of the Rocky Mountains and lamed for life.

Josiah Whitney

Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819–1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874).

Julius Erasmus Hilgard

This, together with miscellaneous field and scientific work, including a series of very elaborate experiments on the comparison of the standard bar of the base apparatus with the standard meter, occupied his time very closely up to the middle of the year 1860, when the necessary attention to his material interests led him to dissolve his official connection with the Coast Survey for a time, in order to engage in a prominent business enterprise at Paterson, New Jersey.

Libertarian Party of Maine

As of the 2012 election cycle, it is active with a fully constituted State committee, securing the placement of 2012 Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee Gary Johnson onto the Maine general election ballot for the 2012 election and the endorsement of Andrew Ian Dodge the United States Senate election in Maine, 2012.

Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld

In 1860, Schnorr married the Danish-born soprano Malvina Garrigues, who was ten years his senior and who reduced her own appearances on stage in order to support her husband's more promising career.

Marietta Stow

She and Clara S. Foltz nominated Belva Ann Lockwood for President of the United States, and Stow ended up supporting her on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party as their Vice Presidential candidate in the United States presidential election, 1884.

Michael Brunson

In 1973, Brunson became ITN Washington Correspondent, where he remained until 1977, covering Watergate and the 1976 US Presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

National Republican Trust Political Action Committee

On November 1, 2008, just days before the United States presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain, NBC ran an NRT anti-Obama ad featuring Jeremiah Wright during a broadcast of Saturday Night Live.

Nikoloz Baratashvili

His father, Prince Meliton Baratashvili (1795–1860), was an impoverished nobleman working for the Russian administration.

Peter Jansen

Jansen was elected alternate delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention and was a delegate-at-large to the 1896 convention that nominated William McKinley.

Poochi

Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar (1860–1919), singer and composer of Carnatic music

Ranmoor

The Grade II listed Riverdale House on Graham Road was built around 1860 and was lived in by the industrialist Charles Henry Firth and the businessman John George Graves.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 1960

The 1960 Republican presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 1960 U.S. presidential election.

Richard Miles

Richard Pius Miles (1791–1860), Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, 1838–1860

Robert Bower

Sir Robert Lister Bower (1860–1929), British Army, colonial and police officer

Rudnik nad Sanem

Notable personalities who lived in Rudnik include Rabbis Chaim Halberstam who served as its town rabbi from 1796, Boruch Halberstam (1860–1867), Tsvi Hersh Halberstam (1867–1906), Avrohom Halberstam (1906-?).

Rudolf Brunnenmeier

"Hammers" keeper Jim Standen made fine saves from 1860 captain Brunnenmeier and eventually two goals by Alan Sealey twenty minutes before time saw West Ham captain Bobby Moore lifting his first of altogether three trophies within one year in Wembley.

Tassie

William Tassie (1777-1860), Scottish gem engraver and modeller, nephew of James

United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 2004

These elections were held concurrently with the United States presidential election of 2004, United States Senate elections of 2004 (including one in Georgia), the United States House elections in other states, and various state and local elections.

United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, 2004

These elections were held concurrently with the United States presidential election of 2004, United States Senate elections of 2004 (including one in Hawaii), the United States House elections in other states, and various state and local elections.

United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, 2004

These elections were held concurrently with the United States presidential election of 2004, United States Senate elections of 2004 (including one in Oklahoma), the United States House elections in other states, and various state and local elections.

United States presidential election in New York, 1884

All contemporary 38 states were part of the 1884 United States presidential election.

United States presidential election in Vermont, 1968

In 1968, the GOP sought to recover from their crippling defeat with Goldwater, and the party looked to former Vice President and the party's narrowly defeated 1960 presidential nominee, Richard Nixon.

United States presidential election, 1820

Nonetheless, during the counting of the electoral votes on February 14, 1821, an objection was raised to the votes from Missouri by Representative Arthur Livermore of New Hampshire.

United States presidential election, 1872

Joel Parker, the Governor of New Jersey, was nominated for the Vice Presidency.

Walter Coulson

His will was proved 14 December 1860, most of his landed property and personalty being left to his brother William Coulson the surgeon, for his life, and afterwards to his two nephews.

Yonekura Masakoto

In May, 1868, he was presented before Shogun Tokugawa Iesada in a formal audience and on June 24, 1860 due to his father’s retirement due to illness, became the head of the Yonekura clan, and daimyō of Mutsuura Domain.


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