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1864 Presidential Election

Results of the presidential election of 1864, won by Abraham Lincoln with 212 electoral votes.

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Andrew Johnson’s Cabinet

President: Abraham Lincoln (1865) and Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)

Vice President: Andrew Johnson (1865)

Secretary of State: William H. Seward (1865-1869)

Secretary of the Treasury: Hugh McCulloch (1865-1869)

Secretary of War: John Schofield (1868-1869)

Attorney General: James Speed (1865-1866), Henry Stanbery (1866-1868), William M. Evarts (1868-1869)

Postmaster General: William Dennison Jr. (1865-1866), Alexander Randall (1866-1869)

Secretary of the Navy: Gideon Welles (1865-1869)

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1864 National Election

21
George McClellan
212
Abraham Lincoln
118 to win
1,809,445 votes (44.9%)
Running Mate: George H. Pendleton
2,220,846 votes (55.1%)
Running Mate: Andrew Johnson

Lincoln died from an assassin’s bullet on April 15, 1865, replaced by Andrew Johnson.
Kansas, Nevada and West Virginia become states during this election cycle. Due to secession, southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia don’t participate.

1864

State Electoral Votes

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

5

Colorado

Connecticut

6

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

16

Indiana

13

Iowa

8

Kansas

3

Kentucky

11

Louisiana

Maine

7

Maryland

7

Massachusetts

12

Michigan

8

Minnesota

4

Mississippi

Missouri

11

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

3

New Hampshire

5

New Jersey

7

New Mexico

New York

33

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

21

Oklahoma

Oregon

3

Pennsylvania

26

Rhode Island

4

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

5

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

5

Wisconsin

8

Wyoming



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