Hannibal Hamlin was an American attorney and politician who served as the 15th vice president of the United States from 1861 to 1865,during President Abraham Lincoln's first term. He was the first Republican vice president.
Fernando Wood was an American Democratic Party politician,merchant,and real estate investor who served as the 73rd and 75th Mayor of New York City. He also represented the city for several terms in the United States House of Representatives.
The mayor of Philadelphia is the chief executive of the government of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Philadelphia. The current mayor of Philadelphia is Jim Kenney.
Edward Bates was an American lawyer,politician and judge. He represented Missouri in the US House of Representatives and served as the U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln. A member of the influential Bates family,he was the first US Cabinet appointee from a state west of the Mississippi River.
Francis Cornwall Sherman served as Mayor of Chicago,Illinois,for three terms as a member of the Democratic Party.
William Lewis Dayton was an American politician,active first in the Whig Party and later in the Republican Party. In the 1856 presidential election,he became the first Republican vice-presidential nominee when nominated alongside John C. Frémont. The Republican Party lost that campaign. During the American Civil War,Dayton served as the United States Ambassador to France,a position in which he worked to prevent French recognition of the Confederate States of America.
Thomas George Pratt was a lawyer and politician from Annapolis,Maryland. He was the 27th governor of Maryland from 1845 to 1848 and a U.S. senator from 1850 to 1857.
Lynne Marsha Abraham is an American attorney who served as the district attorney of the City of Philadelphia from May 1991 to January 2010. She was the first woman to serve as Philadelphia's district attorney. Abraham won election to that position four times.
Don Alonzo Joshua Upham was an American lawyer,Democratic politician,and Wisconsin pioneer. He served as the 4th Mayor of Milwaukee and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Wisconsin in the 1851 election. He also served as President of the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention and was United States Attorney for Wisconsin during the presidency of James Buchanan. His name was often abbreviated as D. A. J. Upham in historical documents.
Ira Davenport was an American businessman,politician and philanthropist. He was most notable for his service in the New York State Senate (1878-1881),as New York State Comptroller (1882-1883),and a member of Congress from New York's 29th congressional district (1885-1889).
Abraham Oakey Hall was an American politician,lawyer,and writer. He served as Mayor of New York from 1869 to 1872 as a Democrat. Hall,known as "Elegant Oakey",was a model of serenity and respectability. Recent historians have disputed the older depiction of Hall as corrupt or as a front man for a corrupt political order.
Archibald Williams was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. Williams was a friend and political ally of President Abraham Lincoln.
The 1851 New York state election was held on November 4,1851,to elect the Secretary of State,the State Comptroller,the State Attorney General,the State Treasurer,the State Engineer,a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals,a Canal Commissioner and an Inspector of State Prisons,as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.
The 1852–53 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states,coinciding with the 1852 presidential election. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1852 and 1853,and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. In these elections,terms were up for the senators in Class 2.
The 1951 Philadelphia municipal election,held on Tuesday November 6,was the first election under the city's new charter,which had been approved by the voters in April,and the first Democratic victory in the city in more than a half-century. The positions contested were those of mayor and district attorney,and all seventeen city council seats. There was also a referendum on whether to consolidate the city and county governments. Citywide,the Democrats took majorities of over 100,000 votes,breaking a 67-year Republican hold on city government. Joseph S. Clark Jr. and Richardson Dilworth,two of the main movers for the charter reform,were elected mayor and district attorney,respectively. Led by local party chairman James A. Finnegan,the Democrats also took fourteen of seventeen city council seats,and all of the citywide offices on the ballot. A referendum on city-county consolidation passed by a wide margin. The election marked the beginning of Democratic dominance of Philadelphia city politics,which continues today.
The 1951 Philadelphia municipal election,was held on tuesday November 8,,involved contests for mayor,district attorney,all seventeen city council seats,among other offices. Citywide,the Democrats took majorities of over 130,000 votes,continuing their success from the elections four years earlier. Richardson Dilworth,who had been elected district attorney in 1951,was elected mayor. Victor H. Blanc,a city councilman,was elected district attorney. The Democrats also kept fourteen of seventeen city council seats,losing one district seat while gaining another,and kept control of the other citywide offices. The election represented a further consolidation of control by the Democrats after their citywide victories of four years earlier.
Joshua Gilpin was an American paper manufacturer from Philadelphia. Along with his brother,Thomas Gilpin,Jr. and his uncle Miers Fisher,he established the first paper manufacturing business in Delaware in 1787 at the Brandywine Village. In 1804,he introduced the technique of chemically bleaching paper-stuff from England to the United States.
Philadelphia's municipal election of November 3,1959 involved contests for mayor,all seventeen city council seats,and several other executive and judicial offices. Citywide,the Democrats took majorities of over 200,000 votes,continuing their success from the elections four years earlier. Richardson Dilworth,who had been elected mayor in 1955,was re-elected over Republican nominee Harold Stassen. The Democrats also took fifteen of seventeen city council seats,the most seats allowed to any one party under the 1951 city charter. They further kept control of the other citywide offices. The election represented a continued consolidation of control by the Democrats after their citywide victories of the previous eight years.
The 1851 Philadelphia mayoral election saw the reelection of Charles Gilpin.
The 1853 Philadelphia mayoral election saw the reelection of Charles Gilpin to a fourth consecutive term.
