U.S. presidential election, 1856 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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1 Summary 2 Election Results 3 Other Elections 4 For More Information

Summary

President Franklin Pierce was defeated in his effort to be renominated by the Democrats, who instead selected James Buchanan of Pennsylvania. The Whigs meanwhile had disbanded but been largely replaced by the Republican Party, a new organization that nominated John Fremont of California as its first standard bearer.

The campaign of 1856 was waged almost entirely on the issue of slavery, pitted as a struggle between democracy and aristocracy, and focusing specifically on Kansas. Republicans condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act and expansion of slavery, while Democrats took more of a laissez-faire approach to slavery expansion, taking the official approach that it was a state-by-state decision.

Election Results

Presidential Candidate	Party	State	Popular Vote:	Electoral Vote:
James Buchanan	Democratic	Pennsylvania	1,838,169	174
John Charles Frémont	Republican	California	1,341,264	114
Millard Fillmore	American	New York	874,534	8
Vice Presidential Candidate	Party	State	Popular Vote:	Electoral Vote:
John Cabell Breckinridge	Democratic	Kentucky	- - -	174
William Lewis Dayton	Republican	New Jersey	- - -	114
Andrew Jackson Donelson	American	Tennessee	- - -	8

Other Elections

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