Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New Jersey” in chapter 7, page 104 of John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History:
..., no doubt very unexpectedly to himself, on the first ballot for a candidate for Vice-President he received one hundred and ten votes against two hundred and fifty-nine votes for William L. Dayton of New Jersey , upon which the choice of Mr. Dayton was at once made unanimous.
But the incident proves that Mr. Lincoln was already gaining a national fame among the advanced leaders of political thought.
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† | New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) | 4,568 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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