Our Presidents and how we make themMcClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)
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Our Presidents and how we make them
McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)
Presidents -- United States -- Election
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Douglas had a large plurality of the votes, but could not obtain even
a two-thirds vote of the remaining delegates. After the 57th ballot a
motion was made to adjourn the convention to reassemble at Baltimore on
the 18th of June. That was adopted by 195 to 55, whereupon President
Cushing adjourned the convention to reconvene in Baltimore. The
retiring delegates met at St. Andrew’s Hall, in Charleston, elected
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, president, and after much discussion
adopted a platform of its own. After spending four days wholly
devoted to discussion, that body adjourned to reconvene in Richmond
on the second Monday in June. This convention reconvened in Richmond
on the 11th of June, with delegates from Alabama, Texas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia.
John Erwin, of Alabama, was made President, when it adjourned to meet
again in Richmond on the 21st of June, and reassembled on that day
and awaited the action of the Democratic seceders of the Baltimore
convention, who nominated Breckenridge and Lane, when it accepted the
candidates of the seceders and their platform, and adjourned _sine die_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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