Some were war weary and voted for McClellan who promised a negotiated peace.
55.03% of the nationwide popular vote in the 1864 U.S. Presidential Election was in favor of Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln was elected as president twice (1860-1865). He was shot and died his during his 1st year of re-election.
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President Abraham Lincoln
Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln won reelection in the 1864 presidential election defeating George McClellan. In the 1864 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 212 electoral votes and George McClellan received 21 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Lincoln 2,218,388 and McClellan 1,812,807.
Abraham Lincoln was the president when Abraham Lincoln was the president.
The official Republican Party platform for the election of 1860 included a promise not to interfere with slavery in the states, but opposed slavery in the territories. Abraham Lincoln was chosen as the candidate to represent the Party.
Stephen A. Douglas was not a candidate when Abraham Lincoln ran for re-election in 1864. The only times Lincoln ran against Douglas were in the 1858 election for U.S. Senator from Illinois, which Douglas won with 54% of the vote, and the 1860 election for U.S. President, which Lincoln won with 55% of the vote.
Abraham Lincoln was president during the US Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was never a general during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was the president during the United States Civil War
Abraham Lincoln was the President of the USA during the Civil War.