The 1876 United States presidential election was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 7,1876.
The 1888 United States presidential election was the 26th quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 6,1888. Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison,a former U.S. senator from Indiana,defeated incumbent Democratic President Grover Cleveland of New York. It was the third of five U.S. presidential elections in which the winner did not win the national popular vote,which would not occur again until the 2000 US presidential election.
Thomas Andrews Hendricks was an American politician and lawyer from Indiana who served as the 16th governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877 and the 21st vice president of the United States from March until his death in November 1885. Hendricks represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1851–1855) and the U.S. Senate (1863–1869). He also represented Shelby County,Indiana,in the Indiana General Assembly (1848–1850) and as a delegate to the 1851 Indiana constitutional convention. In addition,Hendricks served as commissioner of the United States General Land Office (1855–1859). Hendricks,a popular member of the Democratic Party,was a fiscal conservative. He defended the Democratic position in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era and voted against the Thirteenth,Fourteenth,and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. He also opposed Radical Reconstruction and President Andrew Johnson's removal from office following Johnson's impeachment in the U.S. House.
Wilbur Lucius Cross was an American literary critic who served as the 71st governor of Connecticut from 1931 to 1939.
William Atchison O'Neill was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 84th Governor of Connecticut from 1980 to 1991. He was the second longest-serving governor in Connecticut history,with 10 years in office.
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley was an American politician of the Republican Party,businessman,and insurance executive. In 1876,he served as the first president of baseball's National League and,because of that,was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937,a choice that remains controversial,since his time as a baseball executive was short.
The 1896 Republican National Convention was held in a temporary structure south of the St. Louis City Hall in Saint Louis,Missouri,from June 16 to June 18,1896.
Horatio Seymour was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 United States presidential election,losing to Republican Ulysses S. Grant.
The 1868 Democratic National Convention was held at the Tammany Hall headquarters building in New York City between July 4,and July 9,1868. The first Democratic convention after the conclusion of the American Civil War,the convention was notable for the return of Democratic Party politicians from the Southern United States.
John Harper Trumbull was an American politician who served as the 70th Governor of Connecticut.
Richard Dudley Hubbard was a United States representative and the 48th Governor of Connecticut.
Chauncey Fitch Cleveland was an American politician,a United States representative and the 31st governor of Connecticut.
Thomas Hart Seymour was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who served as the 36th governor of Connecticut from 1850 to 1853 and as minister to Russia from 1853 to 1858. He was the leader of the peace settlement in the Democratic Party,and narrowly lost the April 1863 gubernatorial election.
Everett J. Lake was an American politician and businessman who served as the 67th governor of Connecticut.
The 1888 Democratic National Convention was a nominating convention held June 5 to 7,1888,in the St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall in St. Louis,Missouri. It nominated President Grover Cleveland for reelection and former Senator Allen G. Thurman of Ohio for vice president.
George G. Sumner was an American politician who was the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1883 to 1885.
Samuel Edwin Merwin,was an American politician who was the 64th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1889 to 1893.
The 1884 Democratic National Convention was held July 8–11,1884 and chose Governor Grover Cleveland of New York their presidential nominee with the former Governor Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana as the vice presidential nominee.
