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2 unusual facts about United States presidential election, 1876


United States Senate election in New York, 1879

The two Greenback assemblymen John Banfield (Chemung Co.) and George E. Williams (Oswego Co.) voted for 87-year old Peter Cooper, a New York City inventor, industrialist and philanthropist who had run for U.S. President in 1876 on the Greenback ticket.

United States Senate elections, 1876

The United States Senate election of 1876 was an election in which the Democratic Party gained three seats in the United States Senate, and which coincided with Rutherford B. Hayes narrow election as President.


1876–77 Home Nations rugby union matches

Scotland: HH Johnston (Edinburgh University RFC), Malcolm Cross, RC MacKenzie, EI Pocock (Edinburgh Wanderers), JR Hay-Gordon, SH Smith, DH Watson, D Lang, C Villar, RW Irvine capt.

4318 Baťa

It was named in honor of Tomáš Baťa (1876-1932), a world-renowned Czech businessman founder of the Bata Shoe Organization.

Alexander Brush

He was re-elected in a special election held in February 1872 During his term the cornerstone was laid for the County and City Hall, which was not completed until early in 1876.

Alfred Whitmore

Major Alfred Whitmore (1876–1946) was an English pathologist who, together with C.S. Krishnaswami, identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in 1911.

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).

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.

Bailey's Hotel

Millennium Bailey's Hotel, London -historic hotel in London established in 1876.

Belva Ann Lockwood

She ran in the presidential elections of 1884 and 1888.

Charles Manegold, Jr.

In 1876 he had become a partner of Charles James Kershaw in the ownership of the Northwestern Marine elevator and in 1878 he and his father purchased the Reliance Flour Mill at West Water street.

Conrad Krez

Krez was City Attorney of Sheboygan from 1856 to 1859 and District Attorney of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin from 1859 to 1862 and again from 1870 to 1876.

Constance Bache

Bache was born in Edgbaston, the daughter of Samuel Bache (1804-1876), a Unitarian minister at the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham; an uncle on her mother's side was James Martineau.

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.

Duncan Frederick Campbell

Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Frederick Campbell, DSO (28 April 1876 Simcoe, Ontario – 4 September 1916) was Unionist MP for North Ayrshire who died in World War I.

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 .

Ernest Wilson

Ernest Henry Wilson (1876–1930), English botanist, best known as E. H. Wilson

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.

Francis K. Shattuck

Shattuck was instrumental in getting the Central Pacific Railroad to construct a branch line into Berkeley in 1876 connecting the community and University of California with the main line and the railroad's ferry to San Francisco.

George Prentiss

George Pepper Prentiss (a.k.a. George Pepper Wilson) (June 10, 1876 – September 23, 1902) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1901 through 1902 for the Boston Americans (1901–02) and Baltimore Orioles (1902).

Henry Theophilus Finck

He attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1876, of which he wrote accounts for newspapers and magazines.

Hugh Pearson

From 1876 until his death in 1882, Pearson was also a Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel within Windsor Castle, during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Hugh Shaw

Hugh Murray Shaw (1876–1934), farmer, rancher and Canadian federal politician

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 Trivett Nettleship

He married in 1876 Ada, daughter of James Hinton; she survived him with three daughters, the eldest of whom was Ida (1877-1907) who married the artist Augustus John.

Joseph Kehrein

After studying philology at the University of Giessen from 1831 to 1834, he taught at the gymnasium of Darmstadt, 1835–1837, at that of Mainz, 1837–1845, was prorector at the newly founded gymnasium of Hadamar in Nassau, 1845–1846, professor at the same place, 1846–1855, director of the Catholic teachers' seminary at Montabaur, 1855–1876, and at the same time director of the Realschule at the same place, 1855–1866.

Kudzu in the United States

Kudzu was intentionally introduced to North America by the Soil Erosion Service and Civilian Conservation Corp in 1876 for the purpose of controlling soil erosion in Pennsylvania.

Levi Warner

He was reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from December 4, 1876, to March 3, 1879.

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.

Marabanong

It was built in 1876 on the site of Perley Place, the antebellum mansion purchased in 1870 by British astronomer Thomas Basnett that was originally built by Thomas Perley and destroyed in a fire.

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.

Meta Brevoort

In 1876, she had her final opportunity for a first ascent, but, instead, stayed in the Oberland in order to give more money to her nephew, to support his efforts in the range.

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.

Michael Linning Melville

Michael Linning Melville and his wife Elizabeth both died in 1876 and are buried in the old churchyard at Dartington Hall in South Devonshire, England.

Norman Wilson

Norman Frank Wilson (1876-1956), Canadian farmer and political figure

P. C. John

John was born in 1876 (1051 Malayalam Year) at Kumbanad, Kerala to Padinjattedathu Chacko of the Kumbanattu family.

Philip C. Hayes

Hayes was elected as a Republican to the 45th United States Congress in 1876, unseating independent incumbent Alexander Campbell, a theoretician of the Greenback movement; and was re-elected to the Forty-sixth Congress in 1878.

Pierre Janssen

In 1875, Janssen was appointed director of the new astrophysical observatory established by the French government at Meudon, and set on foot there in 1876 the remarkable series of solar photographs collected in his great Atlas de photographies solaires (1904).

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.

Samuel J. Beck

He visited Los Angeles in 1869 at the behest of the W.H. Workman family and bought a vineyard on San Pedro Street, then moved to the city in 1876.

Southwestern Railways

Between 1871 and 1876 lines from Zhmerynka to Volochysk and from Berdychiv to Shepetivka were added, and between 1890 and 1897, the lines from Zhmerynka to Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Kozyatyn to Uman, Khrystynivka to Shpola and Berdychiv to Zhytomyr; 1897 was also the year when the Fastiv Railways were added to the SWR.

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.

William Hemmant

After he left politics in 1876, he returned to England with his family, settling in Kent.

William T. Jackson

William Trayton Jackson (May 8, 1876 – October 3, 1933) was an American politician.


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