Articles related to "Presidential Election Of 1860"Many factors enabled a fledgling Republican Party to capture the White House in 1860 but a chief reason may have been the division of the Democrats into three parties.
Beginning in 1847, Abraham Lincoln entered national politics, and quickly made a name for himself for his personal convictions and blunt honesty.
The civil war (1861 - 1865) was fought largely over issues of slavery.
Abraham Lincoln owes much of his popularity and success, as well as his election to the presidency, to the efforts of Joseph Medill and the Chicago Tribune.
Richard Milhous Nixon showed signs of great political potential very early on in life, and certainly would live up to that potential in later life.
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