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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STATES. │ Harrison. │ Van Buren.│ Birney.
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Maine │ 46,612 │ 46,201 │ 194
New Hampshire │ 26,163 │ 32,761 │ 126
Vermont │ 32,440 │ 18,018 │ 319
Massachusetts │ 72,874 │ 51,944 │ 1,621
Rhode Island │ 5,278 │ 3,301 │ 42
Connecticut │ 31,601 │ 25,296 │ 174
New York │ 225,817 │ 212,527 │ 2,808
New Jersey │ 33,351 │ 31,034 │ 69
Pennsylvania │ 144,021 │ 143,672 │ 343
Delaware │ 5,967 │ 4,874 │ ―――――
Maryland │ 33,528 │ 28,752 │ ―――――
Virginia │ 42,501 │ 43,893 │ ―――――
North Carolina │ 46,376 │ 33,782 │ ―――――
South Carolina[11] │ ―――――― │ ―――――― │ ―――――
Georgia │ 40,261 │ 31,921 │ ―――――
Alabama │ 28,471 │ 33,991 │ ―――――
Mississippi │ 19,518 │ 16,995 │ ―――――
Louisiana │ 11,296 │ 7,616 │ ―――――
Kentucky │ 58,489 │ 32,616 │ ―――――
Tennessee │ 60,391 │ 48,289 │ ―――――
Missouri │ 22,972 │ 29,760 │ ―――――
Arkansas │ 5,160 │ 6,766 │ ―――――
Ohio │ 148,157 │ 124,782 │ 903
Indiana │ 65,302 │ 51,604 │ ―――――
Illinois │ 45,537 │ 47,476 │ 149
Michigan │ 22,933 │ 21,131 │ 321
├───────────┼───────────┼────────
Totals │ 1,275,016 │ 1,129,102 │ 7,069
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[11] Chosen by Legislature.
There was nothing to quibble about in declaring the count in Congress,
as Harrison had nearly three-fourths of the electoral vote, with a
very large popular majority. While the Democrats had not nominated
any candidate for Vice-President, and as a division of the vote would
be of little consequence, the Democratic electors generally voted for
Vice-President Johnson for re-election. Virginia, that cast a solid
vote against him four years before, gave him 22 of the 23 votes, and
South Carolina, while voting for Van Buren, gave its 11 votes to L. W.
Tazewell, of Virginia, for Vice-President, leaving Johnson with only 48
of the 294 electoral votes.
The following is the vote as cast in the electoral colleges:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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