MCCLELLAN
In the 1984 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln ran against George B. McClellan, a Democrat. Lincoln won with 55% of the vote.
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Stephen Douglas ran against Abraham Lincoln in Election of 1858 for Senate then again for Election of 1860 for President and that's how we got Abraham Lincoln for president
It was Stephen Douglass and John C. Breckenridge who he was going against.
In the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president. Lincoln ran under the Republican banner against his former top Civil War general, the Democratic candidate, George B. McClellan, and the
Former General George B. McClellan ran against Lincoln in 1864. 1864 Presidential Election The candidates for the Presidential election of 1864 were; Abraham Lincoln - Andrew Johnson (Republican), and George McClellan - G. H. Pendleton (Democratic). Abraham Lincoln won the election and was reelected into his second term. The 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln was in office from March 4, 1861 until April 15, 1865 when he was assassinated.
Abraham Lincoln ran in the election of 1856 against Fredrick Douglass and wanted slavery stoped.
In the 1860 Presidential election, he beat: Vice President John Breckenridge a Southern Democrat, Senator Stephen Douglas a Northern Democrat, and John Bell from the Constitutional Union Party, (former Whigs and Know-Nothings, combined). In 1864, the Civil War was still going on, Lincoln ran for a second term for President, and George B. McClellan ran against him.
Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate was elected US president in 1860. His running mate was Hannibal Hamlin from Maine. The was the first time that a Republican president was elected.This was true, what deflates and at the same time credits, the accomplishment was that the Republican Party was less than 10 years old.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln with the Repblican party, John C. Breckinridge with the Southern Democratic party, John Bell with the Constitutional Union party and Stephen A. Douglas with the Northern Democratic party.
Lincoln debated Judge Stephen Douglas in his run for Senator from Illinois. Douglas won the election due to gerrymandering, according to some sources. They also ran against each other in the 1860 Presidential Election, and Douglas had been one of Lincoln's rivals for the hand of Mary Todd when they were younger, too.
Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois Senate election.