The United States presidential election of 1856 was unusually heated. Republican candidate John Fremont condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and crusaded against the Slave Power and the expansion of slavery, while Democrat James Buchanan warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war. The Democrats endorsed the moderate “popular sovereignty” approach to slavery expansion utilized in the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Former President Millard Fillmore represented a third party, the relatively new American Party or “Know-Nothings”. The Know Nothings, who ignored the slavery issue in favor of anti-immigration policies, won a little over a fifth of the vote.
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| - US Presidential Election 1856 (Compromise of 1856)
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| - The United States presidential election of 1856 was unusually heated. Republican candidate John Fremont condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and crusaded against the Slave Power and the expansion of slavery, while Democrat James Buchanan warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war. The Democrats endorsed the moderate “popular sovereignty” approach to slavery expansion utilized in the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Former President Millard Fillmore represented a third party, the relatively new American Party or “Know-Nothings”. The Know Nothings, who ignored the slavery issue in favor of anti-immigration policies, won a little over a fifth of the vote.
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| popular vote
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- 1347320(xsd:integer)
- 1824418(xsd:integer)
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| pv
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- 880131(xsd:integer)
- 1347320(xsd:integer)
- 1824418(xsd:integer)
- 4054647(xsd:integer)
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| states carried
| - 5(xsd:integer)
- 12(xsd:integer)
- 14(xsd:integer)
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| election name
| - United States presidential election, 1856
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| - Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Buchanan/Breckinridge, Red denotes those won by Frémont/Dayton, and Grey denotes those won by Fillmore/Donelson. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
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| electoral vote
| - 32(xsd:integer)
- 125(xsd:integer)
- 139(xsd:integer)
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| Name
| - James Buchanan
- Millard Fillmore
- John Charles Frémont
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| EV
| - 32(xsd:integer)
- 125(xsd:integer)
- 139(xsd:integer)
- 296(xsd:integer)
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| nominee
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| home state
| - California
- New York
- Pennsylvania
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| vp state
| - Kentucky
- New Jersey
- Tennessee
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| Party
| - Republican
- Democratic
- American/Whig
- Know Nothing
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| before election
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| to win
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| Image
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- 164(xsd:integer)
- 168(xsd:integer)
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| State
| - California
- New York
- Pennsylvania
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| running mate
| - John C. Breckinridge
- Andrew Jackson Donelson
- William L. Dayton
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| vp name
| - Andrew Jackson Donelson
- John Cabell Breckinridge
- William Lewis Dayton
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| abstract
| - The United States presidential election of 1856 was unusually heated. Republican candidate John Fremont condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and crusaded against the Slave Power and the expansion of slavery, while Democrat James Buchanan warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war. The Democrats endorsed the moderate “popular sovereignty” approach to slavery expansion utilized in the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Former President Millard Fillmore represented a third party, the relatively new American Party or “Know-Nothings”. The Know Nothings, who ignored the slavery issue in favor of anti-immigration policies, won a little over a fifth of the vote. The incumbent President, Franklin Pierce, was defeated in his effort to be renominated by the Democrats (their official party slogan that year was "Anybody but Pierce"), who instead selected James Buchanan of Pennsylvania; this was thanks in part to the fact that the Kansas-Nebraska Act divided Democrats. The Whig Party had disintegrated over the issue of slavery, and new organizations such as the Republican Party and the American Party competed to replace them. The Republicans nominated John Frémont of California as their first standard bearer, over Senator William H. Seward, and the Know-Nothings nominated former President Millard Fillmore of New York. Perennial candidate Daniel Pratt also ran. Frémont received fewer than 600 votes from slave states—those all coming from Delaware and Maryland. The electoral college results indicated, however, that the Republicans could likely win the next election in 1860 by winning just one more state—Pennsylvania.
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