Abraham Lincoln
No, he ran for U.S. President in 1860 as the Democratic Party's southern candidate.
In the presidential election of 1860 eleven of Southern States supported John Cabell Breckenridge, the former Vice President during Buchanan Administration.
Ulysses S. Grant supported Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.
The Southern Democrats Supported Slavery & They Elected John Breckenridge As Their Democratic Presidential Candidate.
No. Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election. Buchanan won 19 states including all of the southern states. The southern states seceded after Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election.
No- John Breckenridge was the candidate of the Southern Democrats in 1860. John Bell ran for the Constitutional Union Party.
A. As the 1860 presidential election became closer and closer; the Democratic Party split over slavery. Northern Democrats rallied behind Douglas and Southern Democrats supported Dred Scott.
The presidential candidate who received the least votes in the South in the election of 1860 was John Bell.
Because at the time of the election of 1860 only white males had the right to vote, so it's unnecessary to ask who most whites voted for in 1860. Most southern states voted for the Southern Democratic Party's candidate John Breckenridge, who's VP was Joseph Lane. Two links: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1860 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860
It was Stephen Douglas who pleaded with Southern voters to stay with the Union. In the 1860 presidential election, Douglas was the Democratic Party nominee.
Abraham Lincoln was the winning Republican candidate for president in 1860.