The elections of 1856 were a disaster for their candidates. Their nominee for the presidency, former Whig and president Millard Fillmore, came in a distant third behind the Republicans and the ...

James Buchanan. Prior to becoming the 15th president, Buchanan practiced law in Pennsylvania and was elected to the ...

Boston and Montreal were connected by railroad. The cities celebrated the completion of an interconnecting railroad through Canada and New Hampshire down to Boston with a three-day ...

Elections are the foundation of representative democracy. Your right to have a say at the ballot box was paid for with blood ...

A marine salvage firm has found the wreck of a long lost French steamship about 200 miles off New Bedford, Massachusetts ...

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Whether measured by campaign advertising, candidate visits, organizational effort or nervous obsessing over poll results, ...

A proclamation has been issued by the Executive Committee for the election of State officers and members of the General Assembly, on the 15th inst. It will be seen that the General Banking Law was ...

The analysis of nominees for president includes those nominated by the two major parties since 1856 – the first election to feature nominees from both the Democratic and Republican parties. In the ...

Following the election of 1860, the so-called fire-eaters of the planter class had a problem. Even though Lincoln was not ...

With the U.S. election now under two months away ... Polk 170 49.5 1848 Zachary Taylor 163 47.3 1852 Franklin Pierce 254 50.8 1856 James Buchanan 174 45.3 1860 Abraham Lincoln 180 39.3 1864 ...

Brighton runs along Port Phillip Bay from Elwood to Hampton and has been contested at every Victorian election since 1856. It has never been won by Labor, but like neighbouring Sandringham ...