Thursday’s meeting saw dozens of parents, students and concerned community members speak out against Heffernan’s appointment ...

Lincoln won with 1,866,452 votes without carrying a single Southern state. Douglas, the candidate of some Northern and Western factions of the Democratic party who was more tolerant of slavery ...

Former President Donald Trump has suggested that he would easily win a presidential election against a hypothetical combined ticket of former presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington ...

He thought everything was over. It was the summer of 1864, and Abraham Lincoln believed his campaign for re-election amid the Civil War was doomed: The president was to be defeated, his policies ...

Gloves Lincoln Wore to Ford’s Theater Sell for $1.5 Million at Auction. More than 100 relics connected to President Abraham Lincoln brought in $7.9 million, auctioneers said.

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky. He would go on to rank among the best presidents in U.S. history, ... While campaigning for re-election during his first term, ...

Recalling the words of Abe Lincoln as Election Day approaches | 60 Minutes 01:12. Tonight, candidates in the mid-term elections are approaching the end of the trail and voters the end of their ropes.

Although Abe Lincoln often just passed through the state, his wife, ... How NJ's plan to get favored son elected led to Abraham Lincoln's 1860 nomination 6 minute read. David M. Zimmer.

Biopic of Abe Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as President. After a time running livestock to New Orleans, he settles in New ...

That may have diminished his chances; Lincoln lost the nativist counties and the election. But many nativists became Republicans and were in the party that nominated him for the presidency in 1860.

Abraham Lincoln, left, played in the third act of Berkshire Theatre Group’s production of “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” by Robert G. McKay, counsels his son Robert Lincoln (Brandon Dial).

Republican President Abraham Lincoln defeated Democrat challenger Union Gen. George McLellan in the bitterly contested presidential election on this day in history, Nov. 8, 1864.