Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondeceRees, James
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Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondece
Rees, James
Postal service -- History; Postal service -- United States -- History
John C. Frémont, California (Republican), 1,341,514; Millard
Fillmore, New York (American), 874,707.
ELECTORAL VOTE—_For President_, James Buchanan, 174; John C.
Frémont, 109; Millard Fillmore, 8.—Total, 291. Thirty-one
States voting.
_For Vice-President_, John C. Breckenridge, 174; William L.
Dayton, New Jersey, 109; A. J. Donelson, Tennessee, 8; total,
291.
1861 to 1865.
Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, President, inaugurated March 4,
1861. He was born near Muldraugh’s Hill, Hardin county,
Kentucky, February, 1809.
Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, Vice-President. He was born at
Paris, Oxford county, Maine, August 27, 1809.
POPULAR VOTE—_For President_, Abraham Lincoln (Republican),
1,857,610; Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois (Democratic),
1,365,976; John C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky (Democratic),
847,953; John Bell, of Tennessee (Constitutional Union),
590,631.
ELECTORAL VOTE—_For President_, Abraham Lincoln, 180; John C.
Breckenridge, 72; John Bell, 39; Stephen A. Douglas,
12.—Total, 291. Thirty-three States voting.
_For Vice-President_, Hannibal Hamlin, Maine, 180; Joseph
Lane, Oregon, 72; Edward Everett, Massachusetts, 39; Herschel
V. Johnson, Georgia, 12.
As our postal history, so far as the States are concerned, is limited to
our own State, it may not be out of place here to introduce the
following table containing the names of the
_GOVERNORS OF PENNSYLVANIA_,
more, however, as being useful for future reference rather than to its
connection with our subject:—
1682 to 1863.
1682, October. William Penn (Proprietary), acted as Governor
until August, 1684.
Thomas Lloyd, President until December, 1688.
Captain John Blackwell, Deputy-Governor to 1690.
President and Council to April 26, 1693.
Benjamin Fletcher, Deputy-Governor to September, 1692.
William Markham, Deputy-Governor to December 3, 1696.
William Penn again acted as Governor to November 1, 1701.
Andrew Hamilton, Deputy-Governor to February, 1703.
Edward Shippen, President of Council to February, 1704.
John Evans, Deputy-Governor to February, 1709.
Charles Gookin, Deputy-Governor to March, 1717.
Sir William Keith, Bart., Deputy-Governor to June, 1727.
Patrick Gordon, Deputy-Governor to June, 1736.
James Logan, President of Council to June, 1738.
George Thomas, Deputy-Governor to June, 1748.
James Hamilton, Deputy-Governor to October, 1754.
Robert Hunter Morris, Deputy-Governor to August 19, 1756.
William Denny, Deputy-Governor to November, 1759
James Hamilton, Deputy-Governor to October, 1763
John Penn, son of Richard Penn, Deputy-Governor to May 6,
1771.
Richard Penn, Governor to August, 1771.
John Penn (second time), Governor to September, 1776.
Thomas Wharton, Jr., President of Executive Council to
October, 1777.
Joseph Reed, President to November, 1781.
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