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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Presidential elections. (search)
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United labor party,
A political organization in the United States which grew out of several labor societies which had actively entered political life.
From the same source was also developed the National Union Labor party.
Many members of these two parties were formerly identified with the Greenback-Labor party.
In the Presidential campaign of 1888 the United Labor party nominated R. H. Cowdry (Ill.) for President and W. H. T. Wakefield (Kan.) for Vice-President, and this ticket received 2,808 popular votes.
The National Union Labor party nominated Alson J. Streeter (Ill.) for President and C. E. Cunningham (Ark.) for Vice-President, and this ticket received 148,105 popular votes, both parties receiving support from the same source, showing want of harmony.
In the Presidential campaigns of 1892. 1896, and 1900, neither of these parties appeared under their former names, but in each year a Social Labor party made nominations and received popular votes of 21,164, 36,274, and 39
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
Wakefield estate,
In Virginia, the birthplace of George Washington; about half a mile from the junction of Pope's Creek with the Potomac, in Westmoreland county.
The house was destroyed before the Revolution, but upon its site George W. P. Custis placed a slab of freestone, June, 1815, with the simple inscription: Here, the 11th of February (O. S.), 1732, George Washington was born.