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No. Lincoln was never vice president and he was from a different party than was Buchanan, who preceded him as President. (John C. Breckinridge, who was one of the candidates who ran against Lincoln, was Buchanan's vice president.)
In the 1984 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln ran against George B. McClellan, a Democrat. Lincoln won with 55% of the vote.
George McClellan ran against Lincoln on a peace platform for the Democrats. He was beaten by Lincoln.
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Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union John Bell, & Democrat Stephen Douglas.
The opposing candidates for VP were Walter Mondale in 1980 and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.
Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebreaska Act and the Freeport Doctrine
Andrew Johnson was then consequently the vice president, and after that, when Lincoln was assassinated, we was the president himself.
He ran against President John Adams
Just before he ran for president, he ran for Senate.
Lincoln ran in 1860 against a wide field of candidates. Even though he did not win the popular vote, he carried the Electoral College, even though he had less than 50 per cent, he had the most electoral votes of any candidate. He beat Stephen Douglas, Breckenridge, and others.
When Walter Mondale ran for Vice President in 1976 and 1980, he was Jimmy Carter's running mate. When he ran for President in 1984, his running mate was Geraldine Ferraro (that was the first of two times to date that a woman was one of the major party Vice Presidential candidates).