The 1876 United States presidential election was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 7,1876. Incumbent Republican president Ulysses S. Grant declined to run for a third term,so the party chose Rutherford B. Hayes,the governor of Ohio,as its nominee. The Democratic Party nominated New York governor Samuel J. Tilden as their nominee. It was one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history. Its resolution involved negotiations between the Republicans and Democrats,resulting in the Compromise of 1877,and on March 2,1877,the counting of electoral votes by the House and Senate occurred,confirming Hayes as President. It was the second of five U.S. presidential elections in which the winner did not win a plurality of the national popular vote. This is the first time it happened since 1824.
Caldwell County is a county located in Missouri,United States. As of the 2020 census,the county's population was 8,815. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Its county seat is Kingston. The county was organized December 29,1836 and named by Alexander Doniphan to honor John Caldwell,who participated in George Rogers Clark's Native American Campaign of 1786 and was the second Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
Cameron is a city in Clinton,DeKalb and Caldwell counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 8,513 at the 2020 census.
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.
Joseph Washington McClurg was the 19th Governor of Missouri in the decade following the American Civil War. His stepfather was William Murphy.
Alexander Monroe Dockery was an American physician and politician who served as the 30th governor of Missouri from 1901 to 1905. A Democrat,he was a member of the United States House of Representatives,representing the 3rd district from 1883 to 1899.
The Unionist Party,later known as the Unconditional Union Party in the border states,was a political party in the United States started after the Compromise of 1850 to define politicians who supported the Compromise. It was used primarily as a label by politicians who did not want to affiliate with the Republicans,or wished to win over anti-secession Democrats. Members included Southern Democrats who were loyal to the Union as well as elements of the old Whig Party and other factions opposed to a separate Southern Confederacy.
Peter Thacher Washburn was a Vermont lawyer,politician and soldier. A veteran of the American Civil War,he served as the 31st governor of Vermont as a Republican from 1869 to 1870,and was the first Vermont Governor to die in office.
Thomas Caute Reynolds was the Confederate governor of Missouri from 1862 to 1865,succeeding upon the death of Claiborne F. Jackson after serving as lieutenant governor in exile. In 1864 he returned to the state,but was forced back into exile after the Battle of Westport.
Francis Marion Posegate (1838–1917),American Civil War soldier,journalist,and mayor of St. Joseph,Missouri from 1882 to 1884.
John Calvin Lee was an American Republican politician and soldier who served as the ninth lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1868 to 1872.
Asahel Wellington Jones was an American Republican politician who served as the 24th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1896 to 1900.
William Wallace Armstrong was an American journalist and politician born in Columbiana County,Ohio. He served as a Democratic Ohio Secretary of State from 1863 to 1865 and was later publisher of The Plain Dealer and postmaster of Cleveland.
John Patterson Rea (1840–1900) was a Minnesota judge. He was also editor of the Minneapolis Tribune,and from late 1887 to 1888 Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic,succeeding Lucius Fairchild.
John Russell was a Republican politician who was appointed Ohio Secretary of State from 1868 to 1869.
James Sanders Wheat was the Attorney General of Virginia in Union held territory from 1861 to 1863.
The 1870 Missouri gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1870,and resulted in a victory for the Liberal Republican nominee,former Senator Benjamin Gratz Brown,over incumbent Republican Governor Joseph W. McClurg.
