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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
85 electoral votes, Tilden, 184; election disputed (the country in great excitement till the following March)......Dec. 6, 1876 Com. Cornelius Vanderbilt, born 1794, dies at New York......Jan. 4, 1877 Two governors, Nicholls, Democrat, and Packard, Republican, inaugurated in Louisiana......Jan. 8, 1877 Joint congressional committee agrees upon a plan for counting the electoral votes......Jan. 17, 1877 Act passed by Senate, Jan. 25, by 47 to 17, and by House, Jan. 26, by 191 to 86, perford B. Hayes, Ohio, President. William A. Wheeler, New York, Vice-President. Special session of Senate adjourns......March 17, 1877 John D. Lee, convicted of complicity in the Mountain Meadow massacre, executed......March 23, 1877 Packard legislature in Louisiana breaks up......April 21, 1877 Forty-fourth Congress adjourning without making the usual appropriations for the army for the year ending June 30, 1878, the President calls on the Forty-Fifth Congress to meet Oct. 15...
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
litical contest between two factions of the Republican party. The State central committee — S. B. Packard, United States marshal at the head—call a convention to choose a State committee. The oppos Conventions of the two wings of the Republican party at Baton Rouge, headed respectively by Packard and Pinchback. The Packard convention nominates William Pitt Kellogg for governor......June 19Packard convention nominates William Pitt Kellogg for governor......June 19, 1872 Adjourned meeting of the Pinchback convention nominates P. B. S. Pinchback for governor......Aug. 9, 1872 Fusion of two wings of the Republican party by the State central committee nomin held this day both Republican and Democratic parties claim the victory......Nov. 6, 1876 S. B. Packard, Republican, inaugurated governor at the State-house, New Orleans. Francis T. Nicholls, Demsenal at New Orleans are peaceably surrendered to the Nicholls authorities......Jan. 9, 1877 Packard failing to receive aid from the United States government, and a commission appointed by Preside