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1864 Presidential Campaign - Abraham Lincoln - Andrew Johnson & George B. McClellan - George H. Pendleton.

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  • MEDIUM: Ferrotype,

    DATE: 1864.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 5/8" round, overall 2 1/4 x 1".

  • DESCRIPTION: These are 1864 Presidential campaign items to show support for your candidate. The pins are double-sided, with the Presidential candidate on one side and the Vice-Presidential candidate on the other. These can be buttons made as a necklace or pin on your jacket. In this case, the shield of the United States has ferrotype buttons hanging below. <BR><BR> Ferrotypes, also known as tintypes, create a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal, colloquially called "tin." The support is coated with a dark lacquer that supports photographic emulsion. This type of photography was extremely popular in the early 1860s and used extensively for political purposes and portrait photography. <BR><BR> The 1864 election featured incumbent President Abraham Lincoln against the former Commanding General of the U.S. Army, George B. McClellan. <BR><BR> Abraham Lincoln ran as a Republican and National Union Party. The National Union Party was a wartime coalition of Republicans and War Democrats that supported the Lincoln Administration. Abraham Lincoln won the Convention against the Radical Republicans, led by Thaddeus Stevens in the House of Representatives and Charles Sumner in the Senate. The Radical Republicans wanted the eradication of slavery in the United States, opposed Catholicism, were in favor of Prohibition, and supported Nativism. Their platform alienated too many voters, giving Abraham Lincoln the party’s nomination. However, the convention selected Andrew Johnson from Tennessee rather than re-nominate Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. <BR><BR> George McClellan won the Democratic Presidential nomination against New York Governor Horatio Seymour and former Connecticut Governor Thomas Seymour. The 1864 Democratic National Convention adopted proposals for an immediate cease-fire and negotiated settlement with the Confederacy. Not the position of George McClellan but the position of the Democratic Party. <BR><BR> In the election of 1864, the 11 states that succeeded from the Union, making up the Confederate States of America, were not allowed to vote in the 1864 presidential election. The remaining 25 Union states voted in the election. Abraham Lincoln received 2,218,300 votes and carried 212 Electoral Votes. George McClellan received 1,812,807 votes and 21 Electoral Votes. Abraham Lincoln overwhelmingly defeated George McClellan, who carried only two states, Kentucky and New Jersey. <BR><BR>

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition: The pins and ferrotypes are in good to very good condition, and the fabric is red, white, and blue. Potentially, are not period; they have not been tested. The photographs below the pins are digital copies to show the likeness of the candidates. Framed in an antique black frame.

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