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they had chosen Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Republicans choose Calvin Coolidge as their vice presidential candidate in the 1920 election largely because?
The Republicans used to be the whigs, and when the party died out, they became Republicans. Lincoln was a whig, a great truthful one who many respected. They thought his Anti-Slavery ideas were powerful, and thought America was ready for change, and he was elected to run. (He won the election becoming the sixteenth president of The United States.)
In 1860, about 12 of Republicans in the United States owned slaves.
No, he ran for U.S. President in 1860 as the Democratic Party's southern candidate.
The Republicans did not win in 1856- the Democrat Buchanan won the election in 1856. The Republican candidate, Lincoln won in 1860 and so became the first Republican president.
Stephen A. Douglas, US senator from Illinois was their candidate in 1860.
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The Republican Presidential candidate nominated in 1860 was Abraham Lincoln.